Longiseptatispora L.W. Hou & Crous, gen. nov.

Index Fungorum number: MB 835083; Facesoffungi number: FoF

Etymology: Name reflects the longer (= Longi) and septate (=septata) conidia produced by species in this genus.

Conidiomata pycnidial, (sub-)globose, immersed to erumpent, ostiolate; wall of 1–6 layers of brown textura angularis. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells, lining the inner cavity, doliiform, ampulliform, phialidic with percurrent proliferation. Conidia variable in shape and size, relatively longer, hyaline, smooth, granular, solitary, (0–)3-septate, (sub-)globose, elliopsoidal or subcylindrical, straight to irregularly curved.

Type species: Longiseptatispora curvata Crous & Bulgakov