ABSTRACT
The genus Phialophora is a dematiaceous (dark-walled) –lamentous fungus belonging to the mitosporic Magnaporthaceae group, family Magnaporthaceae, order Magnaporthales, class Sordariomycetes, subphylum Pezizomycotina, phylum Ascomycota. The obsolete synonyms of the genus include Cadophora and Margarinomyces, and teleomorphs of this genus are found in Chaetosphaeria, Gaeumannomyces, and Mollisia.
