Neophaeotheca Abdollahz. & Crous,  in Abdollahzadeh, Groenewald, Coetzee, Wingfield & Crous, Stud. Mycol. 95: 392 (2020)

Index Fungorum number: IF833145

Etymology: Name refers to its morphological similarity with the genus Phaeotheca.

Mycelium consisting of hyaline, smooth, septate, branched hyphae, that swell in terminal or intercalary cells, developing numerous endoconidia. Endoconidia brown, verruculose, globose to obovoid, muriform, bursting open to release endoconidia that are red-brown, verruculose, aseptate, ellipsoid to subglobose or irregular.

Type species: Neophaeotheca salicorniae (Crous & Roets) Abdollahz. & Crous