Balladyna gardeniae
Balladyna gardeniae Racib., Parasit. Alg. Pilze Java's (Jakarta) 2: 6 (1900).
Index Fungorum number: IF 218036; Facesoffungi number: FoF 03664, Fig. 1
Description: see Boonmee et al. (2017).
Material considered: see Boonmee et al. (2017).
Fig. 1 Balladyna gardenia (BPI 691469, isotype). a, b Herbarium label and specimen. c Close up of hyphae with hyphopodia. d Setae. e−g Asci. h−m Ascospores. Scale bars: c = 30 µm, d−g = 20 h−m = 10 µm.
Importance and distribution
Balladyna comprises thirty-five species. Although forty-nine epithets have been listed in Balladyna in Index Fungorum (2022), many species have been transferred to Balladynocallia, Balladynopsis, Dysrhynchis, Pseudolembosia and Thrauste. Balladyna species are distributed among thirty-one plant hosts in Anacardiaceae, Annonaceae, Celastraceae, Euphorbiaceae, Lamiaceae, Loganiaceae, Poaceae, Rubiaceae, Urticaceae. Balladyna is known from Africa (Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Uganda), Asia (Taiwan, India, Japan, Java, Philippines), Australia (New South Wales, Queensland), Caribbean (Puerto Rico) and South America (Brazil, Ecuador).
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