Most species of Candolleomyces have brown or dark brown spores. Although pale-spored members are rare in the genus
we frequently collected two such species from many Provinces during our investigations in subtropical China from 2016–2020. As revealed by morphological characterisation and multigene phylogenetic analyses (ITS LSU β-tub and tef-1α) these species
which we have named C. subcacao and C. subminutisporus
are unique and distinct from known taxa. In addition a new combination
C. cladii-marisci
is proposed on the basis of ITS sequence analysis of the type specimen. Detailed descriptions colour photos illustrations and a key to related species are presented.