A new species of Lophodermium with variously branched paraphyses

Lophodermium heterocladum, a new fungus developing on leaves of Rhododendron cavaleriei, was collected from the Mount Sanqingshan National Park of Jiangxi Province, China. Description, illustration, and comments are provided for this taxon. The type collection is deposited in the Reference Collection of Forest Fungi of Anhui Agricultural University, China (AAUF).