Abstract
Black mildews belong to a wide range of leaf inhabiting fungal genera, which causes severe damage to the living leaves, affect photosynthetic efficiency, cause physiological imbalances, and reduces the plants’ aesthetic value. During a survey of foliicolous fungi in Vagamon hills of Kerala state’s Western Ghats region, an endemic medicinal plant Xanthophyllum arnottianum was found infected with an undescribed species of black mildew causing fungal genus Echidnodella. Their mycelia are non-appressoriate and devoid of hypostroma. Thyriothecia are oval, ellipsoidal, X or Y shaped, elongated producing eight uniseptate brown coloured ascospores in each bitunicate asci. Echidnodella was distinguished from the allied genus Echidnodes in the absence of paraphyses and from the genera Lembosia and Morenoella in the lack of appressoria (haustoria). This new species, Echidnodella vagamonensis is described and illustrated in detail to provide the consolidated account of the species known on this host genus.
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Claim · model-written summary
Xanthophyllum arnottianum was infected by an undescribed Echidnodella species.
- Taxon
- Xanthophyllum arnottianum
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Xanthophyllum arnottianume0 - Interactor
- Echidnodellae0pathogen
- Outcome
- found infectede0
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Verbatim
e0“an endemic medicinal plant Xanthophyllum arnottianum was found infected with an undescribed species of black mildew causing fungal genus Echidnodella”
Claim · model-written summary
The fungus had non-appressoriate mycelia without hypostroma.
- Outcome
- mycelia are non-appressoriate and devoid of hypostromae0
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e0“Their mycelia are non-appressoriate and devoid of hypostroma.”
Claim · model-written summary
Thyriothecia had several shapes and produced eight uniseptate brown ascospores per bitunicate ascus.
Not reportedTaxon
Verbatim
e0“Thyriothecia are oval, ellipsoidal, X or Y shaped, elongated producing eight uniseptate brown coloured ascospores in each bitunicate asci.”
Claim · model-written summary
Echidnodella differed from allied genera by absence of paraphyses and appressoria.
Not reportedTaxon
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e0“Echidnodella was distinguished from the allied genus Echidnodes in the absence of paraphyses and from the genera Lembosia and Morenoella in the lack of appressoria (haustoria).”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors described a new species named Echidnodella vagamonensis.
Not reportedTaxon
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e0“This new species, Echidnodella vagamonensis is described and illustrated in detail”