The genus Asterina and its anamorph on Elaeocarpus species in Southern Western ghats of peninsular India

The present study observed that the family Elaeocarpaceae comprises three genera: Elaeocarpus, Sloanea and Muntingia in India. Of these, Elaeocarpus munronii, E. serratus, E. tectorius and E. tuberculatus were found infected with Asterina gamsii, A. elaeocarpi var. ovalis, A. elaeocarpicola and Asterostomella elaeocarpi-serrati in the Southern Western Ghats of peninsular India. All these species are described and illustrated in detail

Black mildews on Goniothalamus species in Agasthyavanam National Park, Kerala, India

The present study indicated that Goniothalamus rhynchantherus and G. wightii were infected by three black mildew fungi, namely, Amazonia goniothalami, Irenopsis goniothalami and Trichasterina goniothalami. These fungi have been described and illustrated in detail

Two new black mildews from Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, India

This paper gives an account of two new black mildews, namely, Asterina prataparajii and Meliola mahamulkarii, infected the leaves of Tylophora dalzelli and Osyris arborea, respectively, were found new and are described and illustrated here in detail

New and Less Known Fungi From Kerala, India

This paper gives an account of five foliicolous fungal taxa collected from Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala state. Of these, Irenopsis xeromphidis and Schiffnerula braunii are the new species; Meliola geniculata and Schiffnerula mirabilis are rare fungi and Meliola pterocarpi found on a hitherto unrecorded endemic host plants

Foliicolous fungi of Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India

The survey of foliicolous fungi during Feb.-March 2007 in the montane forests of Kodaikanal, Madurai District of Tamil Nadu, India resulted in the discovery a new species of Phyllachora, P. sageretiae on living leaves of Sageretia hamosa besides reporting two interesting rusts and one rare Helicosporous hypomycetes. The two rust fungi are Gambleola cornuta (a subsequent collection after four decades) and Kernella lauricola (collected after five decades from a second site in Western Ghats) with telial columns, and Trochophora fasiculata, a rare hypophyllous fungus on Daphniphyllum neilgherrense from Mathikettan Shola of Kodaikanal hills (re-located after the lapse of more than five decades)