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| Dead spruces that have succumbed to Cytospora canker found in McIntyre Wild Area, Loyalsock State Forest, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Resin oozes from the cankers, solidifying into a thick, whitish mass resembling snow or hoarfrost. | |
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| Genus: | Cytospora |
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Cytospora is a genus of ascomycete fungi. The genus was first described in 1818 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.[1][2] Cytospora species are known as plant pathogens.
- ^ "Index Fungorum - Names Record: Cytospora". www.indexfungorum.org. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ^ Ehrenberg, C.G. (1818),Sylvae mycologicae Berolinenses, [540], as Cytispora