[1][2] The species grows on fruits[3] and seeds are generally considered as host-specific.

[4] There English botanists and mycologists Miles Joseph Berkeley and Christopher Edmund Broome described this species in 1873.

[4] This species is reported from Sri Lanka,[4][3] China,[7] Thailand[8][9][10] and Anaimalai Hills Southern Western Ghats, India.

[12] The fruit bodies are erect, elongated black branches, whitened from midway to tips.

[4] The ascospores (fruit bodies) of X. culleniae relatively smaller and the stromata are generally less robust.