Damm et al. (2010) described several species of Phaeomoniella associated with brown wood streaking of Prunus, but that had a hyphomycetous synanamorph differing in morphology to that of P. chlamydospora, while Lee et al. (2006) described species that only had a yeast morph, and other species again only had the coelomycetous morph (Crous et al. 2008, Crous & Groenewald 2011). Subsequently the genus has become rather cumbersome and widely circumscribed, and some taxa associated with brown wood streaking symptoms of other hosts can now be separated into distinct genera. Neophaeomoniella is one such genus that although related to Phaeomoniella, lacks the characteristic hyphomycetous morph.