Fungi > Ascomycota > Sordariomycetes > Diaporthales > Cryphonectriaceae > Cryphonectria > Cryphonectria parasitica

Cryphonectria parasitica (Chestnut blight)

Synonyms: Diaporthe parasitica (homotypic); Endothia gyrosa var. parasitica; Endothia parasitica (homotypic); Valsonectria parasitica
Language: German

Wikipedia Abstract

The pathogenic fungus Cryphonectria parasitica (formerly Endothia parasitica) is a member of the Ascomycota (sac fungi) taxon, and is the main cause of chestnut blight—a devastating disease of the American chestnut tree that in the early 1900s caused a rapid, widespread die-off of this once plentiful tree from its historic range in the eastern United States.
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Invasive Species

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Providers

Parasite of 
Quercus ilex (Holly Oak)[1]
Quercus petraea (Sessile Oak)[1]
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)[1]

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Citations

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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0