Neospadicoides biseptata J. Yang, L.L. Liu & K.D. Hyde, sp. nov.

MycoBank number: MB 559855; Index Fungorum number: IF 559855; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12845;

Etymology: referring to the 2-septate conidia.

Holotype: GZAAS 20-0343

Saprobic on decaying submerged wood in freshwater habitats. Asexual morph: Colonies effuse, brown to dark brown, scattered, glistening. Mycelium partly superficial, partly immersed, composed of septate, branched, smooth, pale brown hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, erect, solitary or in small groups, unbranched, straight, or slightly flexuous, cylindrical, 7–10-septate, smooth-walled, branched, mid brown to dark brown, slightly tapering and paler towards the apex, 125–160(–240) × 4–7 μm ( = 142.5 × 5.6 μm, n = 15). Conidiogenous cells monoblastic, integrated or discrete, terminal, and intercalary, determinate, ovoid, brown, 5–9.5(–12) × 2.5–4.5 μm ( = 7.5 × 3.3 μm, n = 25), darkened at the rounded base. Conidia acrogenous, solitary, obovoid, 2-septate, smooth-walled, subhyaline to pale brown, 8–13 × 3–5 μm ( = 10 × 4.2 μm, n = 30), guttulate, with a small truncate base. Sexual morph: Undetermined.