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fragariae STE-U 3713 (GenBank AY339350; Identities = 327/359 (91 %), gaps 9/359 (2 %)). Our phylogenetic tree, built by using concatenated LSU, ITS, rpb2 and tef-1α sequences, corroborated that our isolate represents a new species  (Alvarez et al. 2016 , Marin-Felix et al. 2017). Coniella heterospora is morphologically similar to C. fragariae, C. nigra and C. solicola, but differs in conidium colour (coppery-coloured in C. heterospora vs dark brown in the other three species) and shape (very variable and sometimes irregularly-shaped in C. heterospora, and scarcely variable in the other species). The phylogenetic analysis showed that C. heterospora forms a basal branch with C. solicola and C. nigra, and differs from these species in 8 bp and 10 bp for rpb2, respectively, and in 26 bp for both tef-1α nucleotide sequences.
Maximum likelihood tree obtained from the combined DNA sequences dataset from four loci (LSU, ITS, rpb2 and tef-1α) of our isolate and sequences retrieved from the GenBank data base. Ex-type strains of the different species are indicated with T. The new species proposed in this study is indicated in bold. The Bayesian posterior probabilities (≥ 0. 95) and RAxML bootstrap support values (≥ 70 %) are provided at the nodes. Melanconiella hyperopta CBS 131696 and Melanconiella sp. CBS 110385 were used as outgroup. Basidiomata stipitate, pileus convex, 6 mm diam, white, surface smooth, dry, smooth margin. Texture slightly elastic, white, immutable. Lamellae white, thick, separate, decurrent, with lamellulae present, smooth margin. Stipe central, white, 40 × 1. 5 mm, cylindrical, smooth, white cottony mycelia at the base.
Spore print white. Basidia 32 -37. 5 × 7-7. 5 µm, elongate, clavate, 2-and 4-spored, hyaline. Clamp connections present in the hymenium, lamellar trama irregular. Pileipellis as cutis. Basidiospores 8-9 × 5 -5. 5 µm, ellipsoid, amygdaloid, ovoid, smooth, non-amyloid, acyanophilic, non-dextrinoid, not metachromatic. Habitat -Gregarious, on the ground, high montane forest. Notes -Phylogenetic analyses show Cuphophyllus colemannianus as the closest species to C. yacurensis, but several morphological differences were found. The pileus of C. colemannianus is larger (10-50 mm), pale brown, slimy surface, and striate margin, with intervenous lamellae, and larger basidia between 37-51 mm  (Trudell & Ammirati 2009). A Blastn search was done with the complete ITS sequence of 634 bases of the C. yacurensis holotype (GenBank KY689662).
The results showed the closest match to C. colemannianus from Canada (GenBank KM248879) with 97 % similarity from 21 base differences and 5 gaps. Following C. colemannianus in the Blastn search results were several uncultured fungi, Camarophyllus borealis, Cuphophyllus virginea, and two Hygrocybe virginea sequences. The phylogenetic analysis was done with the above-mentioned sequences and Hygrocybe virginea as the outgroup. The final alignment was trimmed to include ITS1 through ITS2 only and edited by hand for alignment errors. The phylogenetic tree was constructed using the Maximum Likelihood plugin PHYML in Geneious R9 (http://www. geneious. com;  Kearse et al. 2012) , and the substitution model determined by jModelTest  (Posada 2008)  according to the Corrected Akaike Information Criterion (AICc).
Hygrocybe virginea (GenBank FM208869 and FM208868) is the outgroup. Bootstrap support values ≥ 70 % are given above the branches. The phylogenetic position of C. yacurensis is indicated in bold. The species name is followed by the GenBank accession number, and when the country of origin was indicated, also by the three letter United Nations country code, in order of appearance HUN: Hungary, ECU: Ecuador, CAN: Canada, USA: United States of America. Classification -Nidulariaceae, Agaricales, Agaricomycetes. Basidiomata infundibuliform to slightly campanulate, 7-11 mm in height, 7-11 mm in width at the upper part, isometrical with straight sides, not expanded in the mouth or forming a pedicel at the base. Emplacement 4 mm in width, conspicuous to inconspicuous, brown (7F6  Kornerup & Wanscher 1978).
Caulocystidia as cylindrical hairs, 40 -120 × 6 -10 μm. Clamp-connections absent. Habit, Habitat and Distribution -In small groups on soil in tropical montane evergreen mixed forests. Known from Vietnam. Typus. Vietnam, Đắk Lắk Province, Krông Bông District, Bông Krang communes, Krông Kmar, Chư Yang Sin National Park, 1. 5 km W of Chu Pan Phan Mt, 12. 375567°N 108. 354404°E, alt. 1 700 m, tropical montane evergreen mixed forest (Fagaceae, Magnoliaceae, Theaceae, Podocarpaceae), 9 Apr. 2012, A. Alexandrova (holotype LE295077, ITS and LSU sequences GenBank MF898426 and MF898427, MycoBank MB822676). Notes -Entoloma nigrovelutinum is a remarkable species with bluish black basidiomata characterised by a trichoderm structure of the pileipellis and absence of clamp-connections. The structure of pileipellis makes it superficially similar to species of the subgenus Trichopilus  (Aime et al.
podocarpense differs in most morphological characteristics. Amongst the most contrasting are the smaller size of the stipe, absence of resin bands in the context, different colour of the hymenium and the trimitic hyphal system. The complete ITS sequence of 554 bases of the G. podocarpense holotype was used for the Blastn search; the ITS length followed  Moncalvo & Buchanan (2008). The Blastn results gave the two highest scores to Ganoderma sp. from Argentina (GenBank AF255184) and Ganoderma sp. from New Zealand (GenBank AF255183) reported by  Moncalvo & Buchanan (2008)  as part of the G. australe-applanatum species complex. Ganoderma podocarpense had 23 single base differences with 4 gaps, and 24 single base differences with 5 gaps from the two highest Blastn scores respectively. The six highest Blastn scores, plus G.
Scale bars: basidiomata = 10 mm, basidiospores and capillitium = 2 μm. One of the 189 equally most parsimonious trees of ITS nrDNA sequences was obtained after a Branch and Bound parsimony search using PAUP v. 4  (Swofford 2003). The new Geastrum species, G. caririense, is shown in bold. The accession numbers from EMBL/GenBank databases are indicated. Bootstrap support values greater than 50 % are indicated on the branches, as well as posterior probabilities obtained after a Bayesian analyses in MrBayes  (Ronquist 2012). Geastrum elegans was included as outgroup. CorelDRAW Colonies grown for 28 d on potato dextrose agar (PDA) (Nissui, Tokyo, Japan) at 25 °C are 36 mm diam, pale greyish brown to dark greyish brown, flat and sulcate. Colonies are tough and sometimes overlaid with sticky exudates, and are glabrous or at times forming ridges.
tectonae  (Crous et al. 2014a ). Morphologically, H. cannae can be distinguished from H. tectonae by the former's shorter macroconidiophores, wider ramoconidia, shorter intercalary conidia that are 0 -2-septate, and much shorter lemoniform to pyriform to guttuliform, or ellipsoid to fusoid terminal conidia that lack septa. Based on a megablast search of NCBIs GenBank nucleotide database, the closest hits using the ITS sequences are several unidentified environmental samples, GenBank KT328894 (Identities = 579/579 (100 %), no gaps), GenBank GU054168 (Identities = 579/579 (100 %), no gaps), GenBank KM265975 (Identities = 549/549 (100 %), no gaps), GenBank KF435240 (Identities = 543/543 (100 %), no gaps), GenBank KF436120 (Identities = 526/526 (100 %), no gaps), GenBank KM265610 (Identities = 494/494 (100 %), no gaps) and H.
Megatomentella cristata Maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetic tree obtained using RAxML in CIPRES based on LSU nrDNA. Numbers above branches refer to bootstrap support values ≥ 70 % and thickened branches indicate significant Bayesian posterior probabilities ≥ 95 %. The new genus is highlighted in yellow. GenBank accession numbers for the LSU sequences are given after taxon names. Classification -Phallaceae, Phallales, Agaricomycetes. Unexpanded basidiome (egg) ovoid to pyriform, 11-18 mm high × 6 -8 mm diam, epigeous. Exoperidium membranaceus, smooth, white to yellowish white (4A2), with white rhizomorphs at the base attached to the soil. Endoperidium with gelatinous content, hyaline. Expanded basidiome composed of a pseudostipe and volva. Pseudostipe cylindrical, 80 mm high × 6 mm diam, acuminated at the apex, hollow, spongy, apically perforated; sterile portion white at the bottom, becoming yellowish white (4A2) close to the fertile portion, chambered; fertile portion (receptacle) 22 mm high, reaching 1/3 of the total length of the pseudostipe, brownish red (9D6, 9E6), thick, obclavate but slightly truncate at the tip, with a pore at the apex, surface strongly verrucose.
2015). Basidiospores cylindrical, 4 -5 × 2 -2. 5 μm [x = 4. 3 ± 0. 1 × 2. 4 ± 0. 6 μm, Q m = 1. 7, n = 20], smooth, hyaline. ITS nrDNA phylogenetic tree obtained with MrBayes v. 3. 1. 2. (Huelsenbeck & Ronquist 2001)  under GTR+I+G model for 3 M generations. Both type and paratype of the new species are marked with a rectangle. The GenBank accession numbers are indicated before species names. Support values are indicated on the branches (posterior probabilities/bootstrap). TreeBASE submission ID 21112. Fungal Planet 643 -20 December 2017 Nothophoma raii Rohit Sharma, sp. nov. Etymology. The species is named in the honour of Prof. Mahendra K. Rai, SGB Amaravati University, India, for his contribution to the systematics of the genus Phoma. Classification -Didymellaceae, Pleosporales,  Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes.
Pycnidia are larger and more abundant on OA. Habitat -Soil. Distribution -India (Pimpri, Pune, Maharashtra). Colour illustrations. India, Maharashtra, Pune, Pimpri industrial area near antibiotic producing industry; colony on OA and CA after 30 d at 25 °C, conidiomata under microscope, hyaline conidia, thick-walled elongated and barrel-shaped chlamydospores. Scale bars = 10 μm. Rohit Sharma, Amey Thakur, Prafull Pawar & Karthika U. Nair, National Centre for Microbial Resource (NCMR), National Centre for Cell Science, S. P. Pune University, Ganeshkhind, Pune, 411 007, Maharashtra, India; e-mail: rohit@nccs. res. in Typus. india, Pune (Pimpri), Maharashtra, soil from industrial area, 1 Aug. 2012, R. Sharma (holotype preserved in metabolically inactive state MCC 1082, ITS and β-tub sequences GenBank MF664467 and MF664468, Myco-Bank MB822354).
5 × 195. 6-411. 3 µm vs 100-250 µm) and slightly longer but narrower conidia (11-14. 5 × 1. 7-2. 5 µm vs 10-12. 5 × 2. 5-3. 5 µm). The chlamydospores of N. raii are also larger than N. gossypiicola (11-21. 5 × 4. 5-8. 5 vs 8-12 µm). Phylogenetic Analysis -Two phylogenetic trees of ITS and β-tub regions were prepared using sequences of N. raii and other Nothophoma species from GenBank and  Crous et al. (2016b)  showing the phylogenetic position of the new species. The BLASTn results of ITS sequence of N. raii (GenBank MF664467) with fungal ex-type sequences showed closest similarity with N. anigozanthi CBS 381. 91 (GenBank NR_135992. 1; Identities = 426/434 (98 %), Gaps = 2/434 (0 %)) and N. infossa CBS 123395 (GenBank NR_135968; Identities = 423/434 (97 %), Gaps = 2/434 (0 %)). A phylogenetic tree showed that it clustered with N.
gossypiicola CBS 377. 67. The BLASTn results of β-tub sequence of N. raii MCC 1082 (GenBank MF664468) with ex-type sequences showed maximum similarity with Dothiora bupleuricola strain CBS 112. 75 (GenBank KU728618; Identities = 489/497 (98 %), Gaps = 0/497(0 %)), Verrucoconiothyrium eucalyptigenum CBS 142535 (GenBank KY979935; Identities= 456 /497 (92 %), Gaps = 1/497 (0 %)) and N. anigozanthi strain CBS 381. 91 (GenBank GU237580; Identities = 313/335 (93 %), Gaps = 1/335 (0 %)). A phylogenetic tree of β-tub sequences including N. raii MCC 1082 shows that it clusters with N. gossypiicola CBS 377. 67. Classification -Nectriaceae, Hypocreales, Sordariomycetes. No sexual morph or chlamydospores observed. Mycelium consisting of hyaline, septate, branched, 2-4 µm diam hyphae. Conidiogenous cells subcylindrical, hyaline, smooth, unbranched, erect, slightly tapering towards apex with an inconspicuous collarette, (17.
Micromorphology -Conidiophores only observed on OA, monoverticillate; stipes 20 -50 × 2 -2. 5 μm, smooth-walled, hyaline. Phialides in verticils of 3 -4 per verticil, ampulliform, 8-10 × 2 -2. 5 μm. Conidia globose to subglobose, 2. 5-3 × 2-3 μm, smooth-walled. Cleistothecia ripen after 1-2 wk on CYA, MEA and OA at 25 °C, superficial, globose, 90 -210 µm diam, greyish yellow. Asci clavate to ovoid, 7-9 × 5-7 μm. Ascospores mostly subglobose, 3 -4 × 3 -3. 5 μm, finely spiny, with conspicuously pleated subequatorial crests. Typus. uruguay, Colonia Del Sacramento, from soil, 2007, collector unknown (holotype FMR H-14490, cultures ex-type CBS 143247 = FMR 14490; LSU, ITS, BenA and CaM sequences GenBank LT904730, LT904729, LT904699 and LT904698, MycoBank MB822920). Notes -Penicillium uruguayense belongs to sect.
On OA surface and reverse grey to dark grey. Notes -Species of Phyllosticta are reported around the world as plant pathogenic, endophytic and saprobic  (Van der Aa & Vanev 2002). Although the majority of these species are known as pathogens of specific plant hosts, several Phyllosticta spp. have been isolated as endophytes  (Guarnaccia et al. 2017). Based on megablast searches in GenBank, LSU sequences of P. catimbauensis have high identity (99 %) to Phyllosticta species (e. g. , P. podocarpi; CBS 111646; GenBank KF206323. 1). On ITS sequences, P. catimbauensis is 99 % (540/547) similar to Phyllosticta sp. (LGMF1196; GenBank JX559614. 1), amongst others. Using actA sequences, P. catimbauensis has low similarity of 91 % (198/217) to P. bifrenariae (VIC 30556 = CBS 128855; GenBank JF343649. 1).
On tef1 sequences P. catimbauensis has 96 % (323/337) similarity to Phyllosticta sp. (GZAAS6. 1404; GenBank KR025445. 1), amongst others. Morphologically, P. catimbauensis is different from P. bifrenariae in size of the pycnidia (up to 250 µm vs 160-280 μm diam in P. catimbauensis), conidiogenous cells (7-10 × 4-5 μm vs 9. 5-10. 5 × 3-3. 5 µm in P. catimbauensis), conidia ((10-)11-13(-16) × (7-)8-9 μm vs (8. 5-)9. 5(-10. 5) × 5. 5-6 µm in P. catimbauensis), appendages (6-20 × 1-1. 5 μm vs 3-6. 5 × 1-1. 5 µm), spermatia (5-10 × 1. 5-2 μm vs 5. 5-9. 5 × 1. 5-2)  (Glienke et al. 2011 ). In the phylogenetic analyses, P. catimbauensis is closely related to P. bifrenariae. Colour illustrations. Mandevilla catimbauensis in the Catimbau National Park; conidiomata; conidiogenous cells; spermatia, and conidia.
Entire phialides (12-)15-23(-25) × 2-2. 5 µm, awl-shaped; β-conidia fusiform, in chains, (3 -)4 -6. 5(-8) × (1-)1. 5 -2(-2. 5) µm. Typus. thailand, Phitsanulok Prov. , Noen Maprang district, 16. 734'N 100. 658'E, alt. 520 m, on Coleoptera larva, buried in soil, 27 June 2017, S. Lamlertthon (SL), S. Mongkolsamrit (SM), K. Tasanathai (KT) & W. Noisripoom (WN) (holotype BBH42883, culture ex-type BCC84553, ITS, LSU, tef and rpb1 sequences GenBank MF959733, MF959737, MF959742 and MF959745, MycoBank MB822770). Additional materials examined. thailand, Phitsanulok Prov. , Noen Maprang district, 16. 734'N 100. 658'E, alt. 520 m, on Coleoptera larvae, buried in soil, 27 June 2017, SL, SM, KT, WN, BBH42881, BBC84551, ITS, LSU, tef and rpb1 sequences GenBank MF959731, MF959735, MF959739 and MF959743, BBH42882, BCC84552, ITS, LSU, tef and rpb1 sequences GenBank MF959732, MF959736, MF959740 and MF959744; 28 June 2017, SL, SM, KT, WN, BBH42884, BCC84557, ITS, LSU, tef and rpb1 sequences GenBank MF959734, MF959738, MF959741 and MF959746.
prunicola, but P. angularis is phylogenetically clearly distinct. A megablast search of NCBIs GenBank nucleotide database of the closest ITS sequences yielded Pseudocercospora norchiensis as the closest option (GenBank EF394859; Identities = 545/546 (99 %); Gaps = 1/546 (0 %)). For act the highest similarity was found for P. brackenicola (GenBank KT037606; Identities = 209/214 (98 %); no gaps). A phylogenetic tree was constructed with the actin region (known to better explain molecular affinities in this group of fungi) and, together with morphological data justified the proposition of a new species to accommodate the fungus found on Prunus persica. Culture characteristics -Colonies on PDA growing up to 1. 2 cm diam after 7 d in the dark at 25 °C, dark grey, surface pale grey, aerial mycelia whitish to pale grey, reverse dark grey.
Typus. Brazil, Pernambuco, Serra Talhada (S07°59'00" W38°19'16"), as endophyte in roots of Sorghum bicolor (Poaceae), Dec. 2014, R. J. V. Oliveira (holotype as metabolically inactive culture, URM 7423, ITS, LSU, rpb1 and tef1 sequences GenBank KY421938, KY421941, KY421944 and KY421942, MycoBank MB819580). Notes -The phylogenetic analyses of the four-gene dataset (tef1, rpb1, ITS and LSU rDNA) showed that Pseudophialophora sorghi formed a distinct clade with other species of Pseudophialophora with high support values. On ITS P. sorghi is 96 % (456 /474) similar to P. panicorum (strain CM3m7, GenBank KF689652) and 96 % (443/463) to P. tarda (strain WSF14RG48-2, GenBank KP769840). The LSU sequence is 99 % (564/568) similar to P. panicorum (strain CM3m7, GenBank KF689642) and 99 % (566 /568) to P.
tarda (strain WSF14RG48-2, GenBank KP769832). The rpb1 sequence is 99 % (602 /608) similar to P. panicorum (strain CM9s6, GenBank KF689621) and 99 % (603 /608) to P. tarda (strain WSF14RG48-2, GenBank KP784823). The tef1 sequence is 99 % (884 /893) similar to P. panicorum (strain CM3m7, GenBank KF689632) and 99 % (883 / 893) to P. tarda (strain WSF14SW13-1, GenBank KP784830). In the phylogenetic analysis P. sorghi is nearest to P. panicorum and P. tarda. However, colonies of P. sorghi are dark grey while P. tarda presents colonies yellowish and P. panicorum presents colonies yellowgreen. Furthermore, conidia of P. sorghi (5 -8. 5 × 2 -3 μm) are slightly smaller than conidia of P. tarda (7. 5 -9. 5 × 2. 5 -3. 5 μm) and conidia of P. panicorum (7. 5 -11. 5 × 3. 5 -5 μm)  (Luo et al. 2014 (Luo et al.
Pyrenopeziza symphoricarpi occurs on a similar substrate (Symphoricarpos sp. , Caprifoliaceae), but differs from P. velebitica and P. lonicerae in having inamyloid asci that are 50-60 µm long  (Dennis 1963 ). The ITS sequence of P. velebitica was compared to DNA sequences of diverse generic representatives from mollisioid fungi downloaded from GenBank (see phylogenetic tree in MycoBank, under MB818668).
Stipitipellis a cutis, made up of long, cylindrical, hyaline hyphae, 10 -12 µm wide; hairs of stipe cylindrical, up to 150-200 µm long. Clamp connections absent in all parts examined. Habitat & Distribution -Solitary, on wood in tropical lowmountainous, polydominant, constantly moist forests. So far only known from the type locality. Typus. Vietnam, Gia Lai Province, Mang Yang districts, A Yun commune, A Yun village, Kon Ka Kinh National Park, path along the river, on wood of unknown tree, 14 May 2016, O. Morozova (holotype LE 313229, ITS and LSU sequences GenBank MF377507 and MF377508, MycoBank MB821859). Notes -Volvariella morozovae is characterised by its medium-sized and slender basidiocarps with pale brownish grey and hairy pilei, olivaceous brown or rusty brown felted volva, small (5-6.
2 × 3. 3-4. 3 µm) elongate-ellipsoid to lacrymoid basidiospores. There are several fairly well-known species with small or medium-sized basidiocarps, grey or brown pilei and coloured volva, among them Volvariella cinerascens, V. fuscidula, V. murinella, V. nigrodisca and V. taylorii. The studied Vietnamese collection does not agree in all aspects with the description of any of these species (MycoBank supplementary data). The result of megablast search of GenBank database using the ITS (625 bp) sequence of V. morozovae showed Volvariella sp. from India (GenBank KR349630), V. taylorii from Italy (Gen-Bank LN877891) and V. nullicystidiata from Brazil (GenBank EU920671) as the closest hits, but with extremely low indexes of similarity: 87 %, 85 % and 84 %, respectively. Fungal Planet 656 -20 December 2017 Setophaeosphaeria citri  Guarnaccia & Crous, sp.
On MEA, PDA and OA spreading, with sparse aerial mycelium and embedded conidiomata, surface folded, lobed, surface smoke-grey to dark grey. Reverse olivaceous grey on MEA and PDA, dark grey to black on OA. Typus. italy, Massafra, Taranto, Apulia, on twigs of Citrus reticulata (Rutaceae), 9 June 2015, V. Guarnaccia (holotype CBS H-23240, culture ex-type CPC 27148 = CBS 143355; ITS and LSU sequences GenBank MG263524 and MG263525, MycoBank MB823316). Notes -The genus Setophaeosphaeria was recently described including two species, S. hemerocallidis and S. badalingensis. Another species previously known as Phaeosphaeria setosa was also included  (Crous et al. 2014a ). When present, ascomata are pseudothecial, immersed on leaves and stems, producing ellipsoid, bitunicate, 8-spored asci. The ascospores are pale brown, fusoid to ellipsoid, with mucoid caps at each end, guttulate and septate.
Conidiomata develop readily in culture and are pycnidial, brown, globose, producing hyaline, subcylindrical, guttulate, aseptate conidia. Setophaeosphaeria citri is phylogenetically distinct from S. badalingensis, S. hemerocallidis and S. setosa, and also has smaller conidia than those observed in S. badalingensis, (5-)6(-7) × (2. 5-)3 μm. Moreover, S. citri forms only conidiomata whilst S. hemerocallidis produces ascomata with ascospores and also presents larger conidia, (11-)13-16(-19) × (3-)3. 5(-4) μm  (Crous et al. 2014a). No Setophaeosphaeria species are known from Citrus. Based on a megablast search of NCBIs GenBank nucleotide database, the closest hits using the ITS sequence are S. hemerocallidis (GenBank KJ869161; Identities = 387/407 (95 %), Gaps = 1/407 (0 %)), S. badalingensis (GenBank KJ869162; Identities = 443/489 (91 %), Gaps = 13/489 (2 %)) and Coniothyrium sidae (GenBank KF251149; Identities = 439/483 (91 %), Gaps = 18 /483 (3 %)).
Based on a megablast search of NCBIs GenBank nucleotide database, the closest hits using the LSU sequence are S. badalingensis (GenBank KJ869219; Identities = 783/ 786 (99 %), Gaps = 0/ 786 (0 %)), Coniothyrium sidae (GenBank KF251653; Identities = 782 / 786 (99 %), Gaps = 0/ 786 (0 %)) and Pyrenochaeta acaciae (GenBank KX228316; Identities = 776/ 786 (99 %), Gaps = 0/ 786 (0 %)). The first of two equally most parsimonious trees of ITS sequences obtained from a heuristic search. The analysis was conducted with PAUP* v. 4. 0b10 with 100 random taxon additions and 1 000 bootstrap replicates. Bootstrap support values are shown at the nodes. The novel species described here is shown in bold face and the scale bar represents the number of changes. The tree was rooted to Dothistroma pini (GenBank JX901736).
2006 , Hongsanan et al. 2016). The conidia of Paraopeba schefflerae are formed in schizolytic conidiogenous cells while conidia of Alysidiella, Blastacervulus and Asterostomula are formed in sporodochial, acervular and pycnothyrial conidiomata, respectively  (Summerell et al. 2006 , Giraldo et al. 2017). Additionally, the appressorial cells are present in Paraopeba, but have not been observed in Alysidiella, Blastacervulus and Asterostomula  (Summerell et al. 2006 , Giraldo et al. 2017). Bayesian inference analysis (alignment and tree were deposited into TreeBASE under accession number S21280) suggests that Paraopeba schefflerae is related to members of Asterinaceae, and represents a different genus in this family. Paraopeba schefflerae is phylogenetically close but clearly distinct from Prillieuxina baccharidincola.
ITS. Based on a megablast search of NCBIs GenBank nucleotide database, the closest hits using the ITS sequence are Alysidiella parasitica (GenBank NR_132811; Identities = 457/513 (89 %), Gaps = 9/513 (1 %)), Alysidiella suttonii (Gen-Bank HM628774; Identities = 460/517 (89 %), Gaps = 11/517 (2 %)) and Blastacervulus eucalypti (GenBank GQ303271; Identities = 460/517 (89 %), Gaps = 11/517 (2 %)).