Pleurophragmium parvisporum (Ascomycota): One name, seven stories – a case highlighting the need for verification of strains from public culture collections
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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article 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: e 173033, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.173033 Abstract Public repositories of living fungal strains provide essential reference points and support diverse scientific outcomes. Current best practices for preserving fungal strains emphasise the generation of DNA barcodes and the management of comprehensive metadata. However, challenges arise when type material or authentic reference strains are lacking, as this prevents direct comparison of DNA barcodes and forces identifications to rely solely on morphology. This problem is particularly pronounced for strains deposited during the pre-molecular era, especially those belonging to species with simple or convergent morphologies. In this study, we re-examined seven strains deposited in a public culture collection under the name Pleurophragmium parvisporum, including synonymous …