During study of conidial fungi on submerged plant debris in Serra da Fumaça and Serra da Jibóia, Bahia, 17 species were identified. These species included five new records: Actinocladium verruculosum for the American continent, Xylomyces aquaticus for the Neotropics, Actinocladium longiramosum and Dischloridium inaequiseptatum for South America and Cacumisporium pleuroconidiophorum for Brazil. Descriptions, illustrations, geographic distributions and comments are provided for the aforementioned species and a list of all of the species is included.
biodiversity; hyphomycetes; submerged substrate; taxonomy