Nectria (Fr.) Fr., Summa veg. Scand., Sectio Post. (Stockholm): 387, 1849

Yang, Qin, Chen, Wen-Yan, Jiang, Ning & Tian, Cheng-Ming, 2019, Nectria-related fungi causing dieback and canker diseases in China, with Neothyronectriacitri sp. nov. described, MycoKeys 56, pp. 49-66 : 49

Nectria (Fr.) Fr., Summa veg. Scand., Sectio Post. (Stockholm): 387, 1849

Type species.

Nectria cinnabarina (Tode) Fr., Summa veg. Scand., Sectio Post. (Stockholm): 388, 1849.

Note.

Members of Nectria are typically weak parasites of woody plants and occur on hardwood trees and shrubs throughout the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere ( Samuels et al. 2009, Hirooka et al. 2011). The genus Nectria is characterised by well-developed stromata, subglobose to globose, red to dark red, fleshy, soft-textured, uniloculate, warted perithecia that become cupulate when dry and are associated with coelomycetous asexual morphs. Asci are unitunicate and clavate to cylindrical in shape. Ascospores are variable and usually broadly ellipsoid to long-fusiform, hyaline to yellow brown, smooth to striate and non- to multi-septate or muriform ( Rossman et al. 1999, Hirooka et al. 2009, Maharachchikumbura et al. 2015).