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The largest Xylaria fruiting bodies I have seen, with a 25 cm stroma length. They were apparently fruiting from decaying roots of a large, dead Ceiba pentandra tree. These are very similar in stromal texture and spore size/morphology to X. kegeliana, except for the absence of a germ slit that spirals (straight to slightly oblique in this collection)

Variable in aspect, these were collected as potentially three different species because of the presence/absence of cream colored surface squamules and the presence of both clavate cylindrical and filiform stroma, but on closer inspection they appear to be conspecific, with the same spore shape, size, and germ slit length/orientation. This is also supported by the fact that they were fruiting together on the same piece of wood. The variable stroma morphology is probably what Dennis (1956) discusses as the differences between X. curta and X. feejeensis.