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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.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Chestnut Blight
speciesCryphonectria parasitica
Cryphonectria carpinicola
speciesCryphonectria carpinicola
Cryphonectria radicalis
speciesCryphonectria radicalis
Cryphonectria japonica
speciesCryphonectria japonica
Cryphonectria decipiens
speciesCryphonectria decipiens
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49191.