Stroma hypogeal, rather short, 30 × 36 mm; globose, with a pedicel-like appendage up to 50 mm long, rather hard, unbranched, with a black, wrinkled, somewhat glabrous surface lacking perithecial mounds, covered with a thick, black, rather carbonous outer skin; interior solid throughout, cream-colored, soft, sterile, composed of thick-walled, interwoven hyphae with a narrow lumen. Perithecia, asci, ascospores, and paraphyses not observed.

This is a rare species hypogeal origin, found in old mansions associated with termite.Edible and medicinal.

Kerala(India).Reported on Materia Medica of theLocal Health Traditions of Payyannur(Unnikrishnan,2004), Molecular phylogenetic method Manmohan et al. 2015 proved that Nilamanga is X. acuminatilongissima and morphologically indistinguishable from Sclerotium stipitatum described by Berkeley (1860)
taxonomicLLY IDENTIFIED

Stroma hypogeal, rather short, 30 × 36 mm; globose, with a pedicel-like appendage up to 50 mm long, rather hard, unbranched, with a black, wrinkled, somewhat glabrous surface lacking perithecial mounds, covered with a thick, black, rather carbonous outer skin; interior solid throughout, cream-colored, soft, sterile, composed of thick-walled, interwoven hyphae with a narrow lumen. Perithecia, asci, ascospores, and paraphyses not observed.

Obtained by chance while digging soil for some other purposes and remarkably, is often obtained from the foundations of old houses when they are dismantled.Also found to be seen on old termite affected hard woods.

Change in houses/buildings from wood and mud to concrete caused these species getting rare.

Nothing

Balakrishnan V & Anilkumar N, Nilamanga (Sclerotium stipitatum?) A rare termite fungal sclerotia with medicinal properties known among the tribal communities of Kerala, Ethnobotany, 13 (2001) 9-14
Deepna KP, Latha, Sheeba Veluthoor&Patinjareveettil; Manimohan, On the taxonomic identity of a fungal morph used in traditional medicine in Kerala State, India, Phytotaxa, 201(4) (2015) 287-295