Pleotrichocladium – Facesoffungi number: FoF 08298

Pleotrichocladium Hern.-Restr., R.F. Castañeda & Gené, in Hernández-Restrepo et al., Stud. Mycol. 86: 74 (2017).

MycoBank number: MB 820277; Index Fungorum number: IF 820277; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08298; 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with molecular data.

Type species – Pleotrichocladium opacum (Corda) Hern.-Restr., R.F. Castañeda & Gené, in Hernández-Restrepo et al., Stud. Mycol. 86: 75 (2017).

≡ Sporidesmium opacum Corda, Icon. fung. (Prague) 1: 7 (1837).

Notes – Pleotrichocladium was established by Hernández-Restrepo (2017) to accommodate a widely-distributed species Trichocladium opacum which was originally identified as Sporidesmium opacum based on phylogenetic analysis with strong bootstrap surpport.Pleotrichocladium opacum has pale brown conidiogenous cells and smooth conidia with schizolytic secession while the generic type of Trichocladium, T. asperum has hyaline conidiogenous cells, verrucose conidia and rhexolytic secession (Hambleton et al. 2005, Hernández-Restrepo 2017). Phylogenetically, Pleotrichocladium opacum aligned within Melanommataceae, while T. asperum was placed in Chaetomiaceae (Hambleton et al. 2005, Hernández-Restrepo 2017, Wanasinghe et al. 2018c).

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