v3i1.43

ISSN: 1800-427X (print)
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v3i1.43

Submitted date: 16 May 2011
Accepted date: 24 June 2011
Published date: 30 July 2011
Pp. 42–43.

Additions to black mildews of India

V.B. Hosagoudar*, Jacob Thomas & D.K. Agarwal
*Corresponding author. E-mail: vbhosagoudar@rediffmail.com

Kerala is located in the south-west corner of peninsular India and towards the western side of the southern Western Ghats, harbouring rich vegetation. It is a treasure of biological wealth and it needs the specialized personalities to identify and name them. Senior author is being engaged in the study of this never completing treasure of microfungal wealth of Kerala state since three decades. This paper gives an account of four taxa, hitherto unrecorded from India, belonging to the genera Asterina and Meliola, namely, Asterina garciniicola, Meliola abrupta, Meliola bakeri and Meliola hugoniae are described and illustrated.

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