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Foliicolous fungi of Silent ValleyHosagoudar & RijuWattakaka sp. (Asclepiacaceae), Silent Valley, P.P. RajeshKumar et al. HCIO 49832, TBGT 3984.The genus EchidnodellaEchidnodella memecyli Hosag. & T.K. Abraham,J. Mycol. Res. 102: 185, 1998; Hosagoudar, C.K. Biju &Abraham, J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 25: 306, 2001; Hosagoudar,Zoos’ Print J. 18: 1283, 2003; Hosagoudar, Chandraprabha& Agarwal, Asterinales of Kerala, p. 194, 2011 (Fig. 105).Colonies hypophyllous, subdense, spreading, up to5mm diameter, widely confluent; Hyphae substraight,flexuous to crooked, branching opposite to irregular atacute to wide angles, loosely reticulate, cells 24–29x2.5–3.5 μm. Appressoria absent. Thyriothecia scattered,rarely connate, ovate, elongate, straight, curved, acutelysinuate to variously branched, 530–635x31–36 μm,longitudinally split at the centre, mostly crenate at themargin and rarely fimbriate, fringed hyphae very small.Asci ovate, clavate, globose, 8-spored, 33–36x19–24μm. Ascospores conglobate, 1-septate, constricted atthe septum, lower cell slightly attenuated and upperrounded, 12–14.5x–4–6 μm, wall smooth.Material examined: 13.ii.2007, on leaves ofMemecylon sp. (Melastomataceae), Silent Valley, S.S.Shaji et al. TBGT 5602.The genus EupelteEupelte emicta Syd., Ann. Mycol. 22: 426, 1924;Hosagoudar, Zoos’ Print J. 21: 2413, 2006; Hosagoudar,Chandraprabha & Agarwal, Asterinales of Kerala, p. 202,2011. (Image 15)Colonies epiphyllous, dense, crustose, smooth, up to10mm in diameter, often causeyellow haloes around thecolonies and also yellowing on the corresponding lowersurface of the leaves. Hyphae partly superficial and partlyimmersed, superficial hyphae brown, septate, flexuous,irregularly branched at acute to wide angles, cells 12–35x–3–4 μm. External mycelium enters the host throughstomata extended up to palisade tissues. Conidiophoresarise from the external mycelium, mostly deep brownto rarely dark, 0–1septate, erect, often curved, simple,solitary, smooth, 25–32 μm long; conidiogenous cellsterminal, integrated, monoblastic, determinate; conidiabrown, 0–3 septate, not constricted, straight to curved,cylindrical, obclavate, broadly rounded at the apex,truncate at the base, wall smooth, 20–48x8–10 μm.Thyriothecia scattered to grouped, initially orbicular, laterelliptic to elongated, simple, straight, curved, often X orY shaped, astomatous, dehisce vertically at the centre,Image 16. Balladyna indica1 - Infected leaves; 2 - Mycelial seta; 3 - Mycelial colony with blackperithecia; 4 - Appressoria with hyaline spots; 5 - Developing stipitateperithecium; 6 - Ascosporeorbicular thyriothecia 100–120x90–100 μm, ellipsoidalthyriothecia 441–700x196–245 μm; asci born on thebasal hymenium, clavate, bitunicate, become sphericalat maturity, eight spored, 36–40x14–18 μm; ascosporesconglobate, oblong, brown, uniseptate, constricted atthe septa, 17–20x9–11 μm, wall smooth but becomesverrucose at maturity.Material examined: 14.xii.2003 on leaves of Oleadioica (Oleaceae), Chempatty, V.B. Hosagoudar et al.HCIO 46291, 46303, TBGT 1937, 1949.The genus PrillieuxinaPrillieuxina jasmini (Hosag. & T.K. Abraham) Hosag.,Foliicolous fungal flora of Peppara and Neyyar Wild lifeSanctuaries in Kerala State India, p. 19, 2009.Asterinella jasmini Hosag. & T.K. Abraham, IndianPhytopath. 50: 220, 1997; Hosagoudar, C.K. Biju &Abraham, J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 25: 306, 2001; Singh, Duke,Bhandari & Jain, J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 30: 74, 2008.Prillieuxina jasmini (Hosag. & T.K. Abraham) Hosag. inJournal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 05 March 2013 | 5(3): 3701–37883763