Trichoderma sp. 76 has three representative New Zealand strains: LU1348 isolated from the roots of Hosta sp. from MidCanterbury, ICMP 5426 an ascospore strain from a fruiting body from native forest (originally identified as H. schweinitzii and later as H. orientalis, (Table 2) (Samuels et al.1998), and CBS 243.63 previously recognised as a member of an isolated lineage in Longibrachiatum Clade by Druzhinina et al. (2012) and Samuels et al. (2012b). Trichoderma sp. 76 has also been isolated from the Republic of South Africa (Druzhinina et al. 2008).