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Bionectria
Bionectria ralfsii growing on a dead branch of Cytisus scoparius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Hypocreales
Family:	Bionectriaceae
Genus:	Bionectria Speg. (1919)
Type species
Bionectria tonduzii Speg. (1919)

Bionectria is a genus of fungi in the class Sordariomycetes. The genus was described in 1919 by mycologist Carlos Luigi Spegazzini to include species of Nectria that grew on living plant material.

Species

• B. apocyni
• B. aurantia
• B. aureofulva
• B. aureofulvella
• B. byssicola
• B. capitata
• B. compactiuscula
• B. coronata
• B. epichloe
• B. gibberosa
• B. grammicospora
• B. grammicosporopsis
• B. impariphialis
• B. intermedia
• B. kowhai
• B. lasiacidis
• B. levigata
• B. lucifer
• B. mellea
• B. oblongispora
• B. ochroleuca
• B. parva
• B. parviphialis
• B. pityrodes
• B. pseudochroleuca
• B. pseudostriata
• B. pseudostriatopsis
• B. ralfsii
• B. rossmaniae
• B. samuelsii
• B. sesquicillii
• B. setosa
• B. solani
• B. sporodochialis
• B. subquaternata
• B. tonduzii
• B. tornata
• B. truncata
• B. verrucispora
• B. vesiculosa
• B. wenpingii
• B. zelandiae-novae

Further reading

• Schroers H-J. (2001). "A monograph of Bionectria (Ascomycota, Hypocreales, Bionectriaceae) and its Clonostachys anamorphs" (PDF). Studies in Mycology. 46: 1–96.