Two new species of asterinaceous fungi from Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

The black mildews from Mahabaleshwar are under exploration, among which two species of Asterinaceous fungi occurring on Syzygium spp. (Myrtaceae) are found to be new. These species, viz. Asterina myrtacearum sp. nov. and Lembosia mahabaleshwarensis sp. nov. are reported in this paper. The detail morphological description, colour photographs, line drawings and discussions are provided here for each species.

Some New Records of Black Mildew Fungi from Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra State, India

“…India has been the cradle for black mildew fungi and about 1159 taxa of black mildews are known from India [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Some of the researchers contributed certain number of these fungi from Maharashtra state [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. Hence, this group of fungi attract the attention for extensive exploration and investigation from Maharashtra state.…”