ABSTRACT
The ascomycete genus Neodeightonia C. Booth belongs in the family Botryosphaeriaceae, order Botryosphaeriales. Members of the family Botryosphaeriaceae are best known as pathogens, saprophytes, and endophytes in a wide range of plant hosts.1 Their occurrence and relevance as human pathogens is low in comparison to other clinical fungi, and only a few species such as Lasiodiplodia theobromae (Pat.) Griffon & Maubl.,2,3 Macrophomina phaseolina Tassi (Goid.),4,5 Neoscytalidium dimidiatum (Penz.) Crous & Slippers,4,6 and Neodeightonia subglobosa C. Booth7 have shown the potential to cause disease to man.
