Morphological and phylogenetic analyses reveal eight novel species of (Sporocadaceae, Amphisphaeriales) from southern China.

Plants play an important role in maintaining the ecological balance of the biosphere, but often suffer from pathogenic fungi during growth. During our continuing mycological surveys of plant pathogens from terrestrial plants in Jiangxi and Yunnan provinces, China, 24 strains of isolated from diseased and healthy tissues of plant leaves represented eight new species, viz. , , , , , , and .