Cryphonectria

Cryphonectria
Cankers caused by the Cryphonectria parasitica cause the bark to split.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	Ascomycota
Subphylum:	Pezizomycotina
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Diaporthales
Family:	Cryphonectriaceae
Genus:	Cryphonectria

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.^[1]

Species

• Cryphonectria macrospora (Tak. Kobay. & Kaz. Ito) M.E. Barr
• Cryphonectria naterciae M.H. Bragança, E. Diogo, & A.J.L. Phillips
• Cryphonectria nitschkei (G.H. Otth) M.E. Barr
• Cryphonectria parasitica (Murrill) Barr
• Cryphonectria radicalis (Schwein.: Fr.) M. E. Barr

References

1. ^ Helena Bragançaa, Daniel Riglingb, Eugénio Diogoa, Jorge Capeloa, Alan Phillipsd and Rogério Tenreiroc (2011). "Cryphonectria naterciae: A new species in the Cryphonectriae-Endothia complex and diagnostic molecular markers based on microsatellite-primed PCR". Fungal Biology 115 (9): 852–861. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2011.06.014.