Neodeightonia palmicola J.K. Liu, Phook. & K.D. Hyde, Sydowia 62: 268 (2010), MycoBank MB518804

New synonyms: Neodeightonia planchoniae Jayasiri & K.D. Hyde, Mycosphere 10: 147 (2019), MycoBank MB555583; Neodeightonia arengae Y.R. Xiong, Manawas., K.D. Hyde & Z.Y. Dong, Phytotaxa 530: 136 (2022), MycoBank MB558659.

Notes: Neodeightonia planchoniae and N.arengae introduced by Jayasiri et al.(2019) and Xiong et al. 2022, respectively, are reduced to synonymy under N. palmicola . According to the phylogenetic analyses in this study, isolates of N. palmicola, N. planchoniae and N. arengae clustered together in a monophyletic clade supported with high ML-BS/PP values (Figure 4). The ex-type culture of N. palmicola (MFLUCC 10-0822) has the following nucleotide similarities with the sequences of the ex-types of N. planchoniae (MFLUCC 17-2427) and N. arengae (ZHKUCC 21-0074). On ITS: 99.00 % (496/501, including 2 gaps) and 99.60 % (499/501, including 1 gap), respectively. On LSU: 99.16 % (473/477, all incompletely specified bases) and 100 % (477/477), respectively. On SSU: 96.93 % (774/806, including 2 gaps and 16 incompletely specified bases) and 99.75 % (802/804, all gaps), respectively. No tef1 sequence data is available for the ex-type strain of N. palmicola (MFLUCC 10-0822), though ITS and tef1 are the most important loci to separate species within most genera of Botryosphaeriaceae (Phillips et al. 2013) .