Pleurophragmium asiaticum (Crous) Réblová & Hern.-Restr. 2025

Réblová, Martina, Nekvindová, Jana, Bauchová, Lucie & Hernández-Restrepo, Margarita, 2025, Pleurophragmium parvisporum (Ascomycota): One name, seven stories – a case highlighting the need for verification of strains from public culture collections, IMA Fungus 16, pp. e 173033-e 173033 : e173033-

Pleurophragmium asiaticum (Crous) Réblová & Hern.-Restr. comb. nov.

Basionym.

Neomyrmecridium asiaticum Crous , Persoonia 41: 291. 2018.

Typus.

THAILAND • Ratchaburi Province; on leaves of unidentified vine; 2008; P. W. Crous HPC 2252 ( holotype CBS H-23774 , culture ex-type CPC 34535 = CBS 145080 ) .

Notes.

Pleurophragmium asiaticum resembles P. septatum in the characters of its conidiophores, conidiogenous cells, and subhyaline to pale brown, mostly 3 - septate conidia. However, both species represent separate evolutionary lineages. It can also be compared to P. taiwanense ( Matsushima 1987) which differs by producing cylindro-clavate conidia with a slightly inflated apical cell and significantly longer conidiophores. Both species were described from cultures, and their protologues are therefore directly comparable.