Summary:
Monilinia fructicola produces a pale brown cup with a stem, growing from a thin black rind on mummified overwintered fruit of Prunus.

Microscopic:
spores 8.3-11.6 x 4.5-7.0 microns, elliptic to oval; obliquely uniseriate, one-celled, binucleate (generating ascospores with 4 nuclei); asci 8-spored, 125-159 microns x 8-10 microns, cylindric, tapering in lower part to form indistinct stem, slightly expanded at base, rounded or flattened at tip, spores generally in upper half of ascus, inoperculate, pore stained blue in IKI; paraphyses only slightly longer than asci, about 2.5 microns wide at somewhat enlarged tip, colorless, thread-like, septate, rarely branched near base; conidia 13-27 x (6)8-17 microns, elliptic, elongate-elliptic to lemon-shaped, rarely spherical, developed acrogenously in chains, nearly colorless to pale olivaceous-buff; microconidia 2.5-3 microns, in chains and phialides, colorless, spherical, often freed with collarette attached, associated with conidia and rarely fruitbodies, (Elliott, M.E.), spores 6-7 x 3-3.5 microns, elliptic, containing one or more oil droplets, colorless or slightly colored; asci 8-spored, cylindric-clavate; paraphyses simple or branched near their bases; conidia elliptic, elongate-elliptic, or rarely spherical, developed in simple or branched chains, colorless or light colored; microconidia small, spherical, colorless on short-clavate conidiophores, (Seaver)

Notes:
It is found in BC, and was examined by Elliott, M.E.(1) from ON, PQ, who gives a distribution in Canada also including BC and SK. There are also reports from AB, MB, NB, NS, and PE, (Elliott, M.E.(1)). Seaver says it occurs in eastern North America and in Europe, (Seaver). The type is from Europe.

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Bankera carnosa "(Banker) Snell, E.A. Dick, & Taussig"
Ciboria fructicola G. Winter
Phellodon carnosus Banker
Sclerotinia americana Norton & Ezek.
Sclerotinia fructicola (G. Winter) Rehm