Paracremonium L. Lombard & Crous, Stud. Mycol. 80: 233 (2015)
MycoBank number: MB 810267; Index Fungorum number: IF 810267; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06584; 5 species with sequence data.
Type species – Paracremonium inflatum L. Lombard & Crous
Notes – Lombard et al. (2015) introduced Paracremonium based on different strains previously treated as Acremonium recifei with formation of sterile coils from which conidiophores radiate with inconspicuously swollen septa in the hyphae. Ten species are currently accepted under Paracremonium [P. apiculatum, P. bendijkiorum, P. binnewijzendii, P. contagium, P. ellipsoideum, P. inflatum (type species), P. lepidopterorum, P. moubasheri, P. pembeum and P. variiforme] isolated from various sources (i.e., soil, water, sewage and Homo sapiens) (Lombard et al. 2015; Lynch et al. 2016; Crous et al. 2017, 2021a; Zhang et al. 2017a, 2021a; Al-Bedak 2019; Ming et al. 2021). Zhang et al. (2021a) noted that the sterile coil as a distinguishing feature of Paracremonium is no longer significant in characterizing this genus to other acremonium-like genera.
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