Amirreza Amirmijani

Cladosporium is one of the largest hyphomycetous genera that the species of its are distinguishable from allied genera by having coronate conidial hila. By introducing the new concept of Cladosporium [1], the taxonomy of this genus has changed and in many papers, various species have been re-examined and described. Finely, these studies have led to publish a monograph of this genus, viz "the genus Cladosporium" by Bensch et al. in 2012 [2]. Due to limitation in the use of morphological traits, identification of most species are difficult. In recent decays, the use of DNA-based methods such as DNA barcoding has played a great role in identification of species especially cryptic species in most fungal groups. According numerous studies, molecular data has led to the description of new species in the genus Cladosporium [3, 4, and 5]. Considering the new concept of Cladosporium, taxonomy of this genus has started using morphological and molecular data in Iran [6, 7, and 8], and these studies will be continued until reaching a comprehensive monograph.