Cerodothis aurea
Cerodothis aurea Muthappa, Mycologia 61: 737 (1969) Fig. 1
Index Fungorum number: IF327982; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06673
Saprobic on leaves of Bambusa arundinacea. Sexual morph: Thyriothecia 500 × 250 μm, multilocular, pale yellow to brown, epiphyllous, sub-epidermal, comprises dark brown to brown cells of texura angularis (= cylindrical to cuboid cells). Locules globose to subglobose, ostiolate, in transverse section, ectostroma bifurcate 40–76 μm diam., endostroma rounded, 102–178 μm × 160–230 μm; locules 34–76 μm × 51–85 μm; ostiole 34–51 μm long. Asci 35–60 μm × 8–10 μm, 8-spored, bitunicate, subcylindrical to clavate, sessile to very short-pedicellate, narrowly rounded at the apex. Ascospores 12–15 μm × 3–4 μm, crowded, 2–3-seriate, 1-septate, narrowly obovoid to fusiform, hyaline, smooth-walled. Asexual morph: Undetermined.
Material examined – INDIA, Green Lands, Coorg, on leaves of Bambusa arundinacea (Poaceae), 10 March 1968, B.N. Muthappa (BPI 610067, holotype).
Economic significance – Members of the genus Cerodothis cause leaf spot by producing yellow microconidia on Bambusa bambos stands in Karnataka State (Muthappa 1969) and on Dendrocalamus strictus and Thyrsostachys siamensis stands in Kerala State (Mohanan 1994a, b).
Figure 1 – Cerodothis aurea (BPI 610067, holotype). a Details of herbarium material. b Vertical section through ascoma. c Asci and ascospores (redrawn from Muthappa 1969). Scale bars: b = 50 µm, c = 20 µm.
References
Mohanan C. 1994a – Studies on diseases of bamboos and nursery management of Rhizoctonia web blight in Kerala. Ph.D. thesis. Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin.
Mohanan C. 1994b – Diseases of bamboos and rattans in Kerala. KFRI Research Report No. 98. Peechi, KFRI pp 120. Available at: http://www.docs.kfri.res.in/KFRI-RR/KFRI-RR098.pdf (Accessed 9 January 2019)
Muthappa BN. 1969 – Morphology of a new Loculoascomycete on Bambusa arundinacea. Mycologia 61, 737–747.
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