Paraphaeosphaeria verruculosa Verkley, Göker & Stielow, in Verkley, Dukik, Renfurm, Göker & Stielow, Persoonia 32: 48 (2014)
Index Fungorum number: IF 800770; MycoBank number: MB 800770; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12740
=Paraphaeosphaeria parmeliae Crous & Trakun., IMA Fungus 5(2): 401 (2014)
Holotype – Germany, Bayerischer Wald, from needle of Picea abies, Mar. 1985, H. Butin, CBS H-21041.
Prologue and illustrations – in IMA Fungus 5(2): 401, Nov. 2014 and 403, Nov. 2014)
Hosts and geographical distribution – Belgium, from thallus of Parmelia sulcata Taylor; Chile, from wood logs of Pinus radiata D.Don; Colombia, from burned soil; Germany, from needle of Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.
Notes – Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis showed that Paraph. parmeliae CBS 131728 clustered with two strains of Paraph. verrucolosa (CBS 263.85; CBS 682.84) with ML=100%, BI=1.00 bootstrap support. Pairwise nucleotides comparison between the LSU (845 bp), ITS (560 bp), and β-tubulin (427 bp) sequence data of the type strains of two species showed no nucleotide differences. Paraphaeosphaeria verrucolosa and Paraph. parmeliae share similar morphology also (Trakunyingcharoen et al. 2014; Verkley et al. 2014). Therefore, we proposed that Paraph. parmeliae is a synonym of Paraph. verrucolosa.