Acrodictys chishuiensis J. Yang, Jian K. Liu & K.D. Hyde, sp. nov.

MycoBank number: MB 559869; Index Fungorum number: IF 559869; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12849;

Etymology: referring to the collecting site at Chishui City in Guizhou Province, China.

Holotype: HKAS 112618

Saprobic on submerged decaying wood. Asexual morph: Colonies on wood effuse, hairy, dark brown, scattered, glistening. Mycelium mostly immersed, composed of septate, smooth, brown to hyaline hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, erect, straight, or slightly flexuous, cylindrical, septate, smooth-walled, unbranched, dark brown, slightly paler, and narrower towards the apex, 65–135 µm long, 4–5.4 µm wide. Conidiogenous cells monoblastic, integrated, terminal, determinate, cylindrical, lageniform to doliiform, brown, truncate at the apex, sometimes elongating percurrently. Conidia acrogenous, solitary, broadly pyriform, muriform, usually with 4–5 transverse septa and 2–3 longitudinal septum, smooth-walled, pale brown, 23–28.7 × 13.8–21 µm ( = 25.8 × 17.5 µm, n = 20), constricted at the septa, with conspicuous pores at the septa, truncate at the base, basal cell obconical often disintegrating after release, second basal cell cuneiform. Sexual morph: Undetermined.