Szaferohypha Piatek, Stryjak-Bogacka & Czachura 2024, gen. nov.

Szaferohypha Piątek, Stryjak-Bogacka & Czachura gen. nov. Etymology. Named after Polish botanist and palaeobotanist Professor Władysław Szafer (1886–1970), the first director of the W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences. Description. Colonies erumpent, spreading, umbonate, grayish-brown, with a velvety surface caused by abundant aerial mycelium, margin undulate. Mycelium composed of branched, septate, hyaline, subhyaline, pale brown, or brown, smooth or verrucose, usually thick-walled hyphae. Conidiophores micronematous, reduced to conidiogenous cells, rarely macronematous. Conidiogenous cells terminal, rarely lateral, monoblastic, hyaline, subhyaline, pale brown, or brown. Conidia globose, subglobose, rarely broadly ellipsoid, hyaline, subhyaline, or brown, aseptate, rarely with 1–2 septa or muriformly septate, smooth or finely verrucose, thick-walled, sometimes produced intercalary. Type species. Szaferohypha enigmatica Piątek, Stryjak-Bogacka & Czachura.