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Cryphonectria
Sign in to saveCryphonectria is a fungal genus in the order Diaporthales. The most well-known and well-studied species in the genus is Cryphonectria parasitica, the species which causes chestnut blight. The genus was, for a time, considered synonymous with Endothia, but the two are now recognised as distinct. Taxonomic studies in 2006 limited the genus to four species, but a fifth, Cryphonectria naterciae, was described in 2011 from Portugal.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassSordariomycetes
- OrderDiaporthales
- FamilyCryphonectriaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Cryphonectriaceae
- Collections
- FESI-UNAM, BPI, ISC
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Australia, United States
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- Cryphonectria
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- Cryphonectria
- taxonomic type
- Cryphonectria parasitica
- taxon author citation
- (Sacc.) Sacc. & D. Sacc.
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Cryphonectria is a fungal genus in the order Diaporthales. The most well-known and well-studied species in the genus is Cryphonectria parasitica, the species which causes chestnut blight. The genus was, for a time, considered synonymous with Endothia, but the two are now recognised as distinct. Taxonomic studies in 2006 limited the genus to four species, but a fifth, Cryphonectria naterciae, was described in 2011 from Portugal.
==Species== Cryphonectria abscondita Cryphonectria acaciarum Cryphonectria cubensis Cryphonectria decipiens Cryphonectria japonica Cryphonectria macrospora Cryphonectria moriformis Cryphonectria naterciae Cryphonectria nitschkei Cryphonectria parasitica Cryphonectria variicolor According to [(Murr) (And.et And.)] Chestnut blight was first discovered in North America in 1904 on Castanea dentata. By the 1940s it had killed most wild American chestnut trees, which were formerly one of the most abundant species in the eastern U.S.
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