[6] In Sir William Jackson Hooker's book, 'British Flora' (1836), English cryptogamist, Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889), had described a fungal parasite (Savin leaf spot) on the leaves of Juniperus sabina and it was later identified as Podisoma foliicola.
[8] When Cooke re-examined the specimens in 1871, he found them to be different to other Podisoma genus species and so re-named and published it as Sarcostroma berkeleyi in Berkeley's honour.
[15][16] Later published studies which used rDNA sequence data have, however, clarified the confusion, and provided a more complete understanding of the phylogeny and the genetic breakdown for each pestalotioid fungi genus (Jeewon et al. 2002,[16] 2003,[17] 2004,[18]).
[8] It has conidia (an asexual, non-motile spore) 4-5 septate, simple or double apical (features located at opposite the base of an organism) appendage.
[26] In 1999, swollen, fissured cankers on branches of Eucalyptus nitens (about 14–19 years old) growing on the West Coast of South Island, New Zealand.
The fungal genus of Sarcostroma was first recorded from Rotoehu Forest, on the North Island in 1986 and was associated with galling on branches and leaf veins of Eucalyptus stenostoma.
[24] In 2003, Griphosphaerioma zelkovicola (another fungi in the family Amphisphaeriaceae) that was recorded having Sarcostroma as an anamorph (asexual reproductive stage),[15] was first observed in Japan on the bark of Zelkova serrata tree.
[22] Eight pestalotioid fungi were isolated from the Restionaceae (flowering plants) growing in the Western Cape Province nature reserves of South Africa.