Nectria bainii Massee 1899

Creonectria bainii (Massee) Seaver
Nectria Bainii Massee, Kew Bull. 1899 : 5. 1899.
Conidial phase ( Verticilliunif) more or less effuse, giving to the substratum a whitepowdered appearance, later forming minute, whitish, fioccose stromata ; conidiophores several times compound, verticillately branched, about 75-100 /^ in length, the final branchlets produced in tufts or whorls with a single conidium at the tip of each final branch ; conidia ellipsoid, hyaline, simple, about 5X2^; perithecia in small dense clusters, the clusters often confluent, with numerous scattered perithecia ; individual perithecia ovoid, with a rather prominent ostiolum, often fioccose with the conidiophores, or naked and smooth or nearly so, orange, fading to pale-yellow in old specimens, about 300-350 ii in diameter ; asci clavate, 8-spored ; spores partially 2-seriate, hyaline, 1-septate, scarcely constricted at the septum, about 12-14 X 5 ,".
On cacao pods. Type locality : Trinidad. Distribution: Jamaica ; also in Trinidad.