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Pedrocrousiella pongamiae

Pedrocrousiella pongamiae (Syd. & P. Syd.) Rajeshkumar, U. Braun & J.Z. Groenew., in Rajeshkumar et al., Fungal Systematics and Evolution 7: 170 (2021).

 ≡ Fusicladium pongamiae Syd. & P. Syd., Annls mycol. 11(4): 328 (1913).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 838147; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11193, Fig. 1, 2

Description: see Rajeshkumar et al. (2021).

Material examined: see Rajeshkumar et al. (2021).

 

Fig. 1 Pedrocrousiella pongamiae (AMH 10302, epitype). a, b Sporodochia. c–e Conidiophores with cicatrized conidiogenous cells and attached conidia. f Conidia. Scale bars = 10 µm.

Fig. 2 Pedrocrousiella pongamiae (Syd. Fungi Exot. Exs. 441 -M, re-drawn from Fig. 5 in Rajeshkumar et al. 2021). a Section through a sporodochium. b Fasciculate conidiophores. c Conidiogenous cells. d Conidia. Scale bar = 10 µm.

Importance and distribution

Pedrocrousiella comprises only one species known on living leaves of Pongamia glabra (Fabaceae) in Asia (India).

 

References

Rajeshkumar KC, Braun U, Groenewald JZ, Lad SS, Ashtekar N, Fatima S, Anand G. 2021 –Phylogenetic placement and reassessment of Asperisporium pongamiae as Pedrocrousiella pongamiae gen. et comb. nov. (Mycosphaerellaceae). Fungal systematics and evolution 7, 165–176.

Sivanesan A. 1985 – The teleomorph of Asperisporium pongamiae. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 84, 363–367.

 

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