| Cryphonectria | |
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| Cankers caused by the Cryphonectria parasitica cause the bark to split. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Diaporthales |
| Family: | Cryphonectriaceae |
| Genus: | Cryphonectria (Sacc.) Sacc. & D. Sacc. 1905 |
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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.[1]
- ^ Helena Bragança; Daniel Rigling; Eugénio Diogo; Jorge Capelo; Alan Phillips; Rogério Tenreiro (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. PMID 21872182.