Leaf spots irregular, pale brown in centre, brown to tan at margin. Asexual morph on PDA: Conidiomata solitary, globose to clavate, semi-immersed, brown to black; exuding globose, dark brown to black conidial masses. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells discrete, ampulliform to lageniform, hyaline, smooth and thin walled, simple, 4.0–12.0 × 2.0–10.0 μm, apex 2.0–5.0 μm diam. Conidia ellipsoid to clavate, straight to slightly curved, 4-septate, 19.5–26.5 × 5.5–7.0 μm, mean ± SD = 22.7 ± 0.8 × 6.1 ± 0.4 μm; somewhat constricted at septa; basal cell obconic with truncate base, rugose and thin-walled, 2.7–5.0 μm long; three median cells 12.0–16.0 μm long, mean ± SD = 14.7 ± 0.9 μm, doliiform, verruculose, versicoloured, septa darker than the rest of the cell, second cell from base pale brown, 4.0–5.7 μm long; third cell dark brown, 3.5–5.2 μm long; fourth cell brown, 3.8–5.8 μm long; apical cell obconic, hyaline, thin and smooth-walled, 2.5–5.2 μm long; with 1–3 tubular apical appendages, arising from the apical crest, flexuous, unbranched, 21.0–32.0 μm long, mean ± SD = 24.8 ± 3.5 μm; basal appendage single, tubular, unbranched, centric, 2.7–6.5 μm long.

Colonies on PDA incubated at 25 °C in the dark with an average radial growth rate of 9.0–14.0 mm/day and occupying an entire 90 mm petri dish in 7 d, with edge undulate, whitish, aerial mycelium on surface, fruiting bodies black, concentric; reverse of culture yellow to pale brown.

China, Hainan Province: Five Fingers Group Scenic Area, 20 May 2021, Z.X. Zhang. On diseased leaves of Ficusmicrocarpa, HSAUP210112, living culture SAUCC210112; on diseased leaves of Ficusmicrocarpa, HSAUP210113, living culture SAUCC210113.

In the present study, two strains (SAUCC210112 and SAUCC210113) from symptomatic leaves of Ficusmicrocarpa were clustered with Neopestalotiopsispiceana clade (Maharachch. et al. 2014) based on phylogeny (Fig. 1). Morphologically, our strains were the same as N.piceana, which was originally described with an asexual morph on wood of Picea sp., Cocosnucifera and fruit of Mangiferaindica. The sexual morph of N.piceana was undetermined yet. Neopestalotiopsispiceana was a new record for China and first reported from Ficusmacrocarpa (Moraceae).