ABSTRACT: A new dematiaceous hyphomycete, Speiropsis rogergoosensis, producing unicellular conidia connected by narrow isthmi in profusely branched chains on polyblastic discrete conidiogenous cells, recovered from decaying leaves of Artocarpus hirsutus (Moraceae) is described from the forests of Western Ghats in southern India.

KEYWORDS: Biodiversity, Taxonomy, Hyphomycetes, Western Ghats

NOMENCLATURAL NOVELTIES:
Speiropsis rogergoosensis Kesh.Prasad & Bhat, p. 127