“…Snow mold is incited by many fungi that attack dormant plants such as forage crops, winter cereals and conifer seedlings under snow cover ( Matsumoto & Hsiang, 2016 ). Although some of their taxonomic and ecological features have only recently been elucidated (e.g., Saito, 1998 ; Hoshino, Tkachenko, Kiriaki, Yumoto, & Matsumoto 2004b ; Ikeda, Hoshino, Matsumoto, & Kondo, 2015 ), the taxonomic confusion of the most important fungus, Typhula ishikariensis S. Imai still remains unsolved, and requires thorough comparison. McDonald (1961) , after literature review, concluded that T. ishikariensis had priority among related fungi.…”