SARAWAKUS LLOYD, A GENUS OF THE PYRENOMYCETE FAMILY HYPOCREACEAE

The scope of the monotypic genus Sara.wa.kus is enlarged to enable it to accommodate the newly described species Sarawakus sucoisus Rifai. A complete taxonomic revision of the genus is presented, in which it is shown that Sarawakus belongs to the Hypocreaceae and not to the Xylariaceae as some authors have suggested. Hypocrea gelaiinosa (Tode ex Fr.) Fr. subsp. oligotheea Penz. & Sacc. is accorded specific status as Hypocrea oligotheea (Penz. & Sacc.) Rifai and Phaeocreopsis pezizaeformis Boedijn is transferred to Hypocreopsis

TANTANGAN ABAD XXI YANG HARUS DIJAWAB BIOLOGIWAN INDONESIA

Sudah umum diakui bahwa biologi adalah dasar penguasaan dan pengembangan ilmu serta pemanfaatan teknologi pertanian, perkebunan, kehutanan, perikanan, kedokteran, kesehatan, lingkungan, dan disiplin ilmu-ilmu serta teknologi lain yang kegiatannya ditumpukan pada sumber daya alam hayati. Dalam beberapa dasawarsa terakhir kita menyaksikan bahwa biologi dan segenap cabang spesialisasi serta ranting-ranting superspesialisasinya maju dengan pesatnya, akan tetapi disiplin terapan yang lain juga tumbuh melesat dengan lebih cepat lagi karena dipacu oleh desakan kepentingan yang sangat bersifat antroposentris. Jika dulu tergelar jarak waktu panjang sampai belasan tahun antara temuan ilmiah potensi kemampuan jamur Penicillium notatum untuk menekan pertumbuhan bakteri (1929) dan penerapan luasnya sebagai obat suntik antibiotik penisilin (1944) yang sangat terkenal, sekarang hanya diperlukan waktu bulanan saja untuk dapat mengambil manfaat praktis sebuah pengungkapan spektakular bioteknologi

A NEW TROPICAL SPECIES OF TRIPOSPORIUM

An illustrated description of Triposporium novoguineensei Rifai sp. nov. is presented based on a specimen collected at Garaina, New Guinea.A special visitor award from the Australian Government enabled me to attend the 42nd Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) Congress held in August 1970 in Port Moresby (Territory of Papua and New Guinea), and to participate in a botanical and agricultural post-congress tour around the Territory. The ample opportunity to collect fungi during this tour was fully utilized and a specimen which appeared to represent an undescribed species of Triposporium was found in Garaina Tea Estate, Garaina, Territory of Papua

IN MEMORIAM DOCTOR BOTJAH PRIJANTO

With the premature death of Dr.Botjah Prijanto on 29 April 1969,Indonesian botany has lost one of its few potential cadres.That the progress of the development of botany in Indonesia will be seriously impeded by his untimely death will be evident from the fact that Dr. Prijanto was the first and only Indonesian palynologist.Moreover he was one of the very few Indonesian qualified taxonomic botanists to obtain and complete their academic training in well established botanical institutions abroad

KOSTERMANSINDA RIFAI GENUS NOVUM HYPHOMYCETARUM

The conidial development of Sclerographium magnum Boedijn is described and illustrated; based on this species the new aleuriosporous genus Kostermansinda Rifai is proposed

IN MEMORIAM PROF. IR. KUSNOTO SETYODIWIRYO

After a long illness, Prof. Ir. Kusnoto Setyodiwiryo died peacefully in his home in Bogor on 29 April 1981. He was the first Indonesian to become the Director of the Botanical Gardens of Indonesia, the forerunner of the National Biological Institute

A NEW MELANOGRAPHIUM WITH MONONEMATOUS CONIDIOPHORES

Melanographium laxum Rifai is described and illustrated, based on colonies growing on palm petioles collected in Bogor Botanic Gardens, Java. Unlike the other members of Melanographium, the present species does not form tufted or fasciculated conidiophores

ANOTHER NOTE ON PODOCONIS MEGASPERMA BOEDIJN (HYPHOMYCETES)

RIFAI, M.A. 2008. Another note on Podoconis megasperma Boedijn (Hyphomycetes). Reinwardtia 12 (4): 277– 279. –– Exosporium megaspermum (Boedijn) Rifai and Exosporium ampullaceum (Petch) M.B.Ellis are transferred to Neopodoconis Rifai, a newly created genus extracted from Exosporium Link based on the nature of the true septation of their rostrate conidia. Two new combinations, Neopodoconis ampullacea (Petch) Rifai and Neopodoconis megasperma (Boedijn) Rifai, accordingly are proposed

ENDOPHRAGMIELLA BOGORIENSIS RIFAI, SPEC. NOV. (HYPHOMYCETES)

RIFAI, M.A. 2008. Endophragmiella bogoriensis Rifai, spec. nov. (Hyphomycetes). Reinwardtia 12 (4): 275 – 276.–– A new species of Endophragmiella is described and illustrated based on a specimen found growing on dead branchlets of Morinda citrifolia in Bogor, West Java, and compared with its closely related congeners thus far known

Catatan Tentang Scleroderma pseudostipitatum Petch, Scleroderma verrucosum (Bull.) Pers., and Scleroderma nitidum Berk. (Gasteromycetes)

Jamur Scleroderma pseudostipitatum yang hidup di tropik dikukuhkan sebagai jenis sendiri, dibedakan dari Scleroderma verrucosum yang berasal dari daerah beriklim sedang karena memiliki basidiospora yang lebih besar ditutup oleh duri-duri yang lebih pendek tetapi lebih gemuk, serta juga oleh peridium lebih kuning yang dihias dengan sisik berbeda susunan dan warnanya. Sejumlah catatan, gambar, dan pertelaan Scleroderma pseudotipitatum dan Scle-roderma nitidum Berk. serta juga kunci untuk mendeterminasinya disajikan