Twenty-five new conidial fungi from the Western Ghats and the Andaman Islands (India)

Tw enty-five new taxa o f conidial fungi are described and illustrated from forest litter in the W estern Ghats in southern India, and from the Andaman Islands. They include the new anam orph-genera Vanakripa and Xenoheteroconium , and new species o f A n a v ir g a , A r th r in iu m , B a h u s u tr a b e e ja , B e l t r a n ia , Cheiropolyschem a, Craspedodidymum, Cryptophiale, D ictyochaeta, D ischloridium , Fusichalara, H yphopolynem a , K osterm ansinda, Phialosporostilbe, Phragm otrichum , P iricaudiopsis, Selenodriella , Spadicoides , Sporidesm iopsis, Sporoschisma and Uberispora. In addition, new com binations are made in Craspedodidym um , D ictyochaeta , and Sporidesm iopsis. KEY W ORDS: anam orphs, conidial fungi, hyphom ycetes, taxonom y, new taxa, biodiversity , India, litter decom position. IN T R O D U C T IO N During surveys of tropical m icrofungi from the forests o f the W estern Ghat hills in southw estern India, and from the Andam an Islands, num erous conidial fungi (dikaryom ycotan anam orphs) were collected on plant litter. Among them were a substantial num ber o f undescribed taxa.