Nectria truncata Ellis 1883

Nectria truncata Ellis, Am. Nat. 17: 194. 1883
Perithecia minute, 125-150// in diameter, gregarious, yellowish (dried specimens almost white), slightly collapsing, becoming subtruncate, or with the ostiolum still more depressed so as to appear umbilicate; asci when young tapering into a rather pointed apex, finally clavate, 35-40 X 5 //, 8-spored ; spores crowded, fusoid, 1-septate, slightly constricted, 12 X 2-3 m.
On the inside of white cedar bark which has been stripped from the tree. Type locality : Newfield, New Jersey. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.