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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Xylariales |
| Family: | Hypoxylaceae |
| Genus: | Hypoxylon Bull. |
| Type species | |
| Hypoxylon coccineum Bull.
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Hypoxylon is a genus of ascomycetes commonly found on dead wood, and usually one of the earliest species to colonise dead wood. A common European species is Hypoxylon fragiforme which is particular common on dead trunks of beech.
Based on morphological studies and gene sequence analyses, 27 species formerly assigned to Hypoxylon sect. Annulata were reassigned to a new genus called Annulohypoxylon in 2005.[2]
Research in Iran has shown the potential of some species of Hypoxylon in producing chemicals that are antagonistic against the disease ash dieback.[3]
- ^ Ma, Haixia; Song, Zikun; Pan, Xiaoyan; Li, Yu; Yang, Zhanen; Qu, Zhi (January 2022). "Multi-Gene Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Hypoxylon (Hypoxylaceae, Ascomycota) from China". Diversity. 14 (1): 37. doi:10.3390/d14010037.
- ^ Hsieh, Huei-Mei; Ju, Yu-Ming; Rogers, Jack D. (July–August 2005). Natvig, Don (ed.). "Molecular phylogeny of Hypoxylon and closely related genera". Mycologia. 97 (4): 844–865. doi:10.3852/mycologia.97.4.844. PMID 16457354.
- ^ Pourmoghaddam, Mohammad Javad; Lambert, Christopher; Surup, Frank; Khodaparast, Seyed Akbar; Krisai-Greilhuber, Irmgard; Voglmayr, Hermann; Stadler, Marc (2020). "Discovery of a new species of the Hypoxylon rubiginosum complex from Iran and antagonistic activities of Hypoxylon spp. against the Ash Dieback pathogen, Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, in dual culture". MycoKeys. 66: 105–133. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.66.50946. PMC 7195382. PMID 32377154.