Neoacrodontiella Crous & M.J. Wingf., gen. nov.

MycoBank number: MB 830844; Index Fungorum: IF 830844; Facesoffungi number: FoF;

Etymology. Name refers to a morphological similarity with the genus Acrodontiella.

Classification — Acarosporaceae, Acarosporales, Lecanoro­mycetes.

Mycelium consisting of branched, septate, hyaline, smooth hyphae. Conidiophores aggregated in sporodochia, arising from a hyaline stroma, subcylindrical, smooth, branched, multiseptate. Conidiogenous cells terminal and intercalary, subcylindrical, irregularly curved, rarely straight, with apical taper and pimple-like loci, not to slightly thickened. Conidia solitary, hyaline, smooth-walled, guttulate, fusoid, straight, aseptate, apex subacute, base truncate, not to slightly thickened.

Type species. Neoacrodontiella eucalypti Crous & M.J. Wingf.

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