Neothyrostroma Crous, in Crous et al., Persoonia 43: 257 (2019)

MycoBank number: MB 832863; Index Fungorum number: IF 832863; Facesoffungi number: FoF 09981;

Etymology. Name refers to its morphological similarity with Thyrostroma.

Conidiomata sporodochial, black, superficial on leaves, solitary. Conidiophores arising from brown stroma, subcylindrical, hyaline, smooth, branched, septate. Conidiogenous cells subcylindrical, hyaline, smooth, terminal and intercalary, proliferating percurrently at the apex. Conidia solitary, brown, smooth, fusoid- ellipsoid, apex acutely rounded, base truncate, distoseptate, with 3–5 horizontal septa, and 3–5 oblique or vertical septa.

Type species. Neothyrostroma encephalarti Crous.