Hevansia Luangsa-ard, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora. IMA Fungus 8(2): 348. 2017.

Type species: Hevansia novoguineensis (Samson & B.L. Brady) Luangsa-ard, Hywel-Jones & Spatafo. MA Fungus 8(2): 349 (2017).

Description: The sexual morph characteristics in genus are emended, based on three species H. minuta, H. nelumboides and H. novoguineensis producing sexual morph as members of Hevansia lineage. Sexual morph: Stromata arising from dorsal abdomen, stipe 1–10 mm, fertile part at the terminal of stipe, ca 1–3 × 1–2 mm, white to cream. Perithecia immersed, narrowly ovoid. Asci cylindrical with thickened caps, 8-spored, ascospores hyaline, filiform, whole or disarticulating into part-spores. Asexual morph: Synnemata erect, simple or branched, solitary to numerous, cylindrical to clavate, mycelium covering host, white, cream to ash-grey or brownish-white. Phialides in a monolayer, sparsely scattered or crowded, on mycelium or on a basal cell, smooth-walled, cylindrical, globose, obovoid, with distinct necks. Conidia one-celled, smooth-walled, hyaline, occasionally in a short chain, clavate, cylindrical, fusiform to narrowly obclavate. Colony on PDA white, reverse cream, orange to pale red. Some species produce pale red pigment diffusing in the medium.

Host: Spiders.

Habitat: On the underside of dicotyledonous plants.