Jülich (1982) introduced Leptosporomyces to accommodate species with Athelia-like basidiomata but with short-cylindrical instead of clavate basidia. The genus was introduced with five species although subsequent additions have raised the number of species to 15 (He et al., 2019; Index Fungorum, 2020). For most of these, DNA sequences are currently not available. In our analyses, only the type species was retrieved in Byssocorticiaceae, whereas Leptosporomyces raunkiaeri was placed in a separate clade with Athelopsis subinconspicua, both currently ranked as Atheliales incertae sedis