A new species and a new combination in Codinaea from Brazil

Codinaea aquatica sp. nov., a hyphomycete collected on submerged decaying branches of an unidentified plant, is described and illustrated. It is distinguished by monophialidic and polyphialidic conidiogenous cells that produce fusiform to navicular unicellular hyaline conidia with a single unbranched setula at each end, basal setula strongly curved, apical setula straight or flexuous. Codinaea tropicalis is proposed as a comb. nov. based on Dictyochaeta tropicalis.