For the molecular identification, the ITS and TEF-1α sequences generated in this study were deposited in GenBank with KU180477 and KU180478, respectively. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the isolates resulted in amplicons of approximately 542 bp for the ITS and 301 bp for the TEF-1α gene regions. Multiple sequence alignment of the LPS-1 sequence with those from other fungi (Fig. 3) revealed that the LPS-1 sequence exhibited 100% sequence identity to a sequence from L. pseudotheobromae, but different from the type strains of L. pseudotheobromae (CBS 116459 and CBS 374.54) by way of nucleotide difference in the TEF-1α gene region.