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2014) have clearly shown this generic generic this shown clearly 2014) have VOLUME 6 · NO. 2 therefore that species was omitted name in that therefore citedthe paper. in the genus by Ellis (1976), but they are they are Ellis (1976), but by genus the in again excluded rightly now and classifiedin 2013 & Crous Woudenb. Paradendryphiella et al (Woudenberg type of culture longer and phylogenetically sporulates falls the no longer shows It genus. the outside would be expected ex-type the that features sometimes to support, a misfortune that decades after of a culture with happens preservation. 1971, a species originally Gams W. domschii described as anamorph closely related to the species Cosmospora named now of the viridescens et al (Gräfenhan (1971) described Gams 1971 was by Gams large conidia, rather by as characterized but CBS has culture, 994.69, now ex-type the to other conidia and is unrelated narrow pigmentation; the ex-type culture of Gams’ of Gams’ culture ex-type the pigmentation; shows now CBSname, 764.69, however, to a fungus unrelated with Y-shaped yellowish conidia, yellowish and Y-shaped with darker, species with genus of this other congeneric, conidiaunbranched were (1962). as & Busch proposed Barron by G. member staff he let his young Therefore, genus, a separate describe de Hoog Sybren Ochroconis Hoog & von Arx 1974). In addition to addition Arx In 1974). & von Hoog mycologists who regarded similar colony the conidial and rhexolytic liberation characters of all as species significant(e.g. involved Ellis et al. 1980), molecular1971, 1976, Domsch findings et al. 1999, Machouart (Horré This note is prompted by the case of the the caseThisby of note is prompted common a rather Ochroconis, name generic soil hyphomycetes, of saprotrophic genus some of which grow occasionally on Arx, Von the 1970s, in and fish. humans being mainly interested in producing to identifykeys fungal genera culture in did believemorphologically, not that terreum Scolecobasidium al. addition In to be unwarranted. separation halophilic species,two faster-growing salinum ultimate truth ultimate An ex-type culture cannot always tell the tell the always cannot culture An ex-type