Additions to the genera Asterolibertia and Cirsosia (Asterinaceae, Asterinales), with particular reference to species from the Brazilian Cerrado

Abstract

Four new Asterolibertia species and a new variety of Cirsosia splendida, all found on native Cerrado plants, belonging to three host families are described, illustrated and named as: A. bahiensis sp. nov. on Erythroxylum sp. (Erythroxylaceae); A. barrinhensis sp. nov. on Diospyros burchellii (Ebenaceae); A. campograndensis sp. nov. on Hirtella glandulosa (Chrysobalanaceae); A. parinaricola sp. nov. on Parinari obtusifolia (Chrysobalanaceae); and Cirsosia splendida var. laevigata var. nov., showing both sexual and asexual morphs, on H. glandulosa and H. gracilipes (Chrysobalanaceae). Finally, A. licaniae is reported on a new host, H. gracilipes. Keys to all the known species of Asterolibertia and Cirsosia are included.

Cirsosia humboldtigena sp. nov. (Lembosiaceae, Ascomycetes) on Humboldtia vahliana from Kerala, India

“…al. 2011, Hofmann & Piepenbring 2014, Farr & Rossman 2015, Firmino et al 2016: Dipterocarpaceae (5 species), Arecaceae (4), Chrysobalanaceae (3, including one variety), Malpighiaceae (2), Burseraceae (1) and Lauraceae (1). There is no record of the same Cirsosia species being found on two different host families (Hosagoudar 2010, Farr & Rossman 2015, Firmino et al 2016.…”

Asterina arxii‐batistae sp. nov. (Asterinaceae) on fabaceous hosts in Brazil

“…Asterina have been reported previously in association with living leaves of fabaceous hosts (Tables 1 and 2). None were recorded from Brazil (Farr & Rossman, 2017;Hosagoudar & Abraham, 2000).…”

“…This name never was published due to the death of Batista in 1967 (Bezerra, Maciel, Bezerra, Magalhães, & Souza‐Motta, ; Carneiro, ). Currently, Asterina includes 18 species on fabaceous hosts (Table ) found only in the tropics, as well as other genera of Asterinales, such as Asterolibertia and Cirsosia (Farr & Rossman, ; Firmino, Inácio, Pereira, & Dianese, ).…”