"As shown in the present study, Phaeophleospora atkinsonii, a pathogen of Hebe spp. (Wu et al. 1996, Pennycook & McKenzie 2002), clusters distant from Phaeophleospora s. str., .... [This species] thus clearly represent[s] yet another [genus] in the Phaeophleospora complex.... P. atkinsonii [has] a typical Kirramyces morphology, namely brown, percurrently proliferating conidiogenous cells, and brown, obclavate, verruculose, transversely euseptate conidia. Further species thus need to be included in analyses before these generic concepts can be clarified."