Plant Pathology & Quarantine — Doi 10.5943/ppq/2/2/3 Cercospora habenariicola, a new record for India Patil A, Patil MS and Dangat BT1 Department of Botany, Rajaram College, 1Shivaji University, Kolhapur, (M.S), India
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[email protected] Patil A, Patil MS, Dangat BT 2012 – Cercospora habenariicola, a new record for India. Plant Pathology & Quarantine 2(2), 112–115, doi 10.5943/ppq/2/2/3 Cercospora habenariicola is recorded for the first time from India on seven species of Orchidaceae: Habenaria roxburghii, H. heyneana, H. longicorniculata, H. ovalifolia, Pecteilis gigantea, Peristylus densus, and P. goodyeroides. Keywords – Cercospora – Habenaria – Pecteilis – Peristylus Article Information Received 2 May 2012 Accepted 6 August 2012 Published online 5 September 2012 *Corresponding author: Dangat BT – e-mail –
[email protected] Introduction and Uttur (Dist. Ajara, M.S.) India in the To date about 5500 species of Cercos- period July-September 2010-11. Detailed pora are known (Crous & Braun, 2003). Nine observations of morphological characters were species of Cercospora sensu lato have been carried out under light microscope by recorded on hosts of family Orchidaceae, of preparing hand-cut sections, which were which four species have been transferred to mounted in lactophenol cotton blue. Pseudocercospora Speg. (Meeboon et al., Measurements were made of infection spots, 2007). Only one species of Cercospora has stromata, conidiophores and conidia. Drawings been reported on Orchidaceae from India, were made with the help of a Camera Lucida at Cercospora eulophiae on Eulophia sp. a magnification of 400 x (Fig. 1).Dried (Patil,M.S., 1978). herbarium specimens have been deposited in The present paper records Cercospora National Fungal Culture Collection of India, habenariicola Meeboon, Hidayat & C.