All Passalora spp isolated from different hosts clustered in the same clade (72% ootstrap support), which comprised one of the two distinct clades in the phylogenetic tree, whose identity was 97.49%. The second clade (100% bootstrap support) contained a Cercospora spp cluster (100% bootstrap support) and a Pseudocercospora spp cluster (85% bootstrap support), which
had branch lengths of 0.039 and 0.018, respectively.