Chloridium humicola (S.C. Jong & E.E. Davis) T.P. Wei & Y.L. Jiang, comb. nov.

MycoBank: MB 842520

Basionym:— Phialocephala humicola S.C. Jong & E.E. Davis, Mycologia 64 (6): 1352 (1972).

Description:— Jong & Davis (1972).

Notes:— Phialocephala humicola was initially reported as saprophytes on soil in New Jersey, USA (Jong & Davis 1972). Although we did not isolate the type strains, we have examined the DNA sequence data from ex-type culture and another culture deposited under that species name in GenBank. Multi-locus phylogenetic analyses indicate that this species formed a well-supported monophyletic lineage in Chloridium, and can be differentiated from the other species in Chloridium by its morphological characteristics and DNA sequence data (Fig 1, 2; Jong & Davis 1972). Based on morphological characters and phylogenetic analyses, we therefore transferred P. humicola to Chloridium as a new combination.