A former state official testified yesterday that a state Senate lawyer referred to indicted Brooklyn state Sen. Carl Kruger’s non-existent “daughter” during a 2008 phone call — an account immediately disputed by the attorney in question.

James Clyne Jr., a former executive deputy commissioner of the state Health Department, said he got a call from Senate counsel Joshua Ehrlich inquiring about the fate of Parkway Hospital in Queens, which the state later shuttered.

Clyne said Ehrlich told him that Kruger — charged with peddling his influence to various health-care and real-estate execs — was interested in “because he had a daughter practicing at Parkway.”

Kruger, however, has no children, and Ehrlich denied invoking the phantom offspring.

“I know Carl doesn’t have a daughter,” Ehrlich told The Post by phone shortly after Clyne’s appearance in Manhattan federal court.

“I think Jim’s recollection of that is not accurate.”