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Foliicolous fungi of Silent ValleyHosagoudar & Rijua10µmd19µm2 3Image 20. Schiffnerula aristolochiae1 - Appressoriate mycelium; 2 & 3 - Conidia on conidiophoresto 3μm wide and brown to pale brown towards the endsof the branches which bear a single phialides. Phialidesare straight to curved, funnel shaped, 30–37x3–6 μm.Phialoconidia scanty and minute. Perthecia Scattered,globose, 500–550 μm in diam. Paraphyses persistent,more or less cylindrical, septate, often in pairs on a shortbasal cell, 3–5 μm wide towards the base, tapering to2–3 μm at the rounded apex. Asci are obovoid and eightspored, 45μm long; ascospores are ellipsoidal, brown,3-septate, scarcely constricted at the septa, 20–36x7–11μm. Polar caps are hyaline.Material examined: 06.iv.1984 on leaves of Syzygiumcumini (L.) Skeels (Myrtaceae), Kunthipuzha river side,A. Diraviadoss DAOM 212013; Syzygium sp., Silent ValleyNational Park, 23.vii.2009, Jayakumar et al. HCIO 50045,TBGT 4197.The genus SarcinellaThis is the form genus of the genus Schiffnerula,producing sarciniform, dark conidia.Sarcinella allophyli Hosag., J. Mycopathol. Res. 44:20, 2006; Hosagoudar & Riju, Indian J. Sci. & Techn. 2(6):7, 2009; Hosagoudar, Plant Pathology & Quarantine 1(2):144, 2011 (Fig. 109).Colonies amphigenous, mostly hypophyllous, dense,spreading, up to 3mm in diameter. Hyphae straightto flexuous, pale brown, branching irregular at acuteto wide angles, loosely reticulate, cells 17–24x3–5μm. Appressoria scattered, alternate, unilateral, rarelyopposite, ovate to mostly globose, entire, 7–9x6–11μm. Conidiophores produced lateral to the hyphae,b12.5µm6.5µmFigure 112. Schiffnerula camelliaea - Appressoriate mycelium; b - Ascus; c - Conidia of Questieriella;d - Ascosporessimple, branched, straight to flexuous, micronematousto semi-macronematous, 9–32x4–6 μm. Conidiogenouscells terminal, intercalary, monoblastic, integrated,determinate, cylindrical. Sarciniform conidia solitary,dry, simple, subspherical to oval, 2–10 celled, brown tocharcoal black, muriform, constricted at the septa, 24–32 μm in diameter, wall smooth.Materials examined: 13.xii.2003, on leaves ofAllophyllus cobbe (L.) Raeusch. (Sapindaceae), Sairandhri,V.B. Hosagoudar et al. HCIO 47344, TBGT 2382.Sarcinella loranthacearum Hosag., Jacob- Thomas& D.K. Agarwal, J. Yeast & Fungal Res. 2:85, 2011;Hosagoudar, Plant Pathology & Quarantine 1(2): 157,2011 (Fig. 110).Colonies epiphyllous, dense, up to 2mm in diameter,confluent. Hyphae brown, straight to substraight,branching alternate to opposite at acute to wide angles,closely reticulate, cells 16–28x4–7 μm. Appressoriaalternate, unicellular, ovate to globose, entire, 9–12x7–Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 05 March 2013 | 5(3): 3701–37883767