Podosporiopsis, a new genus of synnematous hyphomycetes from China

Podosporiopsis gen. nov. is proposed. It is characterized by distinct unbranched conidiophores forming distinct synnematal conidiomata with emergent monotretic, integrated, terminal, determinate or percurrently extending conidiogenous cells that produce solitary, obclavate, distoseptate conidia. Podosporiopsis sinensis sp. nov. (the type species) and P. obclavata sp. nov., both collected on dead branches of unidentified plants in China, are described and illustrated. A key to Podosporiopsis and similar genera is provided.