North American Fungi Volume 11, Number 1, Pages 1-31 Published March 28, 2016 The Xylaria names proposed by C. G. Lloyd Yu-Ming Ju1, Huei-Mei Hsieh1, and Shannon Dominick2 1Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 115 29, Taiwan, and 2Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA Ju, Y.-M., H.-M. Hsieh, and S. Dominick. 2016. The Xylaria names proposed by C. G. Lloyd. North American Fungi 11(1): 1-31. http://dx.doi:10.2509/naf2016.011.001 Corresponding author: Yu-Ming Ju,
[email protected]. Accepted for publication November 13, 2015. http://pnwfungi.org Copyright © 2016 Pacific Northwest Fungi Project. All rights reserved. Abstract: Seventy-one new Xylaria names that C. G. Lloyd proposed are annotated herein. Type and/or authentic materials of these names, when available, were studied. Twenty-four of these—including X. beccarii, X. brasiliensis, X. chordaeformis, X. cuneata, X. divisa, X. fimbriata, X. humosa, X. kedahae, X. luteostromata, X. luxurians, X. maumeei, X. morganii, X. muscula, X. nigrescens, X. nodulosa, X. papulis, X. partita, X. petchii, X. praefecta, X. radicans, X. reinkingii, X. reticulata, X. stromatica, and X. theissenii—are considered correct names for distinct species, and four of these—including X. bipindensis, X. clavus, X. cuspidata, and X. muscandae—are for probably distinct species. Illustrations for these species are provided. Thirty names are treated as synonyms or probable synonyms of those published earlier. Thirteen names remain uncertain to us because their type materials are immature or lacking fungal elements except for X. stromafera, of which we were unable to study the type material.