Cryphonectria
''Cryphonectria'' is a fungus, 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 ...
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