Fig. 1

a Morphological characterization of F5 isolate via cultivation on solid medium. From top to bottom: MEA, PDA, DG18, YES, and CYA; obverse (left) and reverse (right). The cultures were incubated for 28 days at 20 °C. b Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree based on ITS sequences retrieved from the NCBI database. The hypothesized cluster of A. pinea strains is highlighted by the red bracket. Isolate F5 is highlighted in orange, next to isolate AZ1047 which showed almost identical morphology (arrow). T. harzanium (starred) was used as an outgroup to root the tree