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The new genusVagniais introduced for the single speciesV. cirriformiadiscovered on thalli ofPeltigerain Poland; it appears to be a pathogen as the cortex is destroyed in a rounded patch within which the conidiomata occur. The fungus is characterized by cupulate to doliiform conidiomata clothed in white hairs and from which a black columnar cirrus of conidia arises. The simple ellipsoid conidia are hyaline when viewed individually and are formed enteroblastically from elongate conidiogenous cells supported by branched conidiophores.