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Colletotrichum: complex species or species ... - CBS - KNAW

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The <strong>Colletotrichum</strong> acutatum <strong>species</strong> <strong>complex</strong>Fig. 16. <strong>Colletotrichum</strong> laticiphilum (from ex-holotype strain <strong>CBS</strong> 112989). A–B. Conidiomata. C–H. Conidioph<strong>or</strong>es. I–L. Appress<strong>or</strong>ia. M–N. Conidia. A, C–E, M. from Anthriscusstem. B, F–L, N. from SNA. A–B. DM, C–N. DIC, Scale bars: A = 100 µm, C = 10 µm. Scale bar of A applies to A–B. Scale bar of C applies to C–N.to pale brown, smooth-walled, ampullif<strong>or</strong>m to cylindrical, 9–15 ×3.5–5.5 µm, opening 1–1.5 µm diam, collarette 0.5–1 µm long,periclinal thickening visible. Conidia hyaline, smooth-walled,aseptate, straight, cylindrical with one end round and one endslightly acute, (10–)12–15(–19.5) × 4–5(–5.5) µm, mean ± SD =13.6 ± 1.7 × 4.5 ± 0.3 µm, L/W ratio = 3.0.Culture characteristics: Colonies on SNA flat with entire margin,hyaline to pale honey, filter paper pale olivaceous grey; growthrate 22.5 mm in 7 d (33.5 mm in 10 d). Colonies on OA flat withentire margin; surface white, buff to pale isabelline, covered withsh<strong>or</strong>t felty white aerial mycelium, reverse buff to honey; growthrate 22.5–23 mm in 7 d (32.5–35 mm in 10 d). Conidia in masswhitish.Material examined: India, Kerala, Kottayam, Rubber Research Institute campus,from raised spots on leaf of Hevea brasiliensis, 1999, unknown collect<strong>or</strong>, (<strong>CBS</strong>H-20799 holotype, culture ex-type <strong>CBS</strong> 112989 = IMI 383015 = STE-U 5303 =CG 6). Colombia, Meta, Villavicencio, from leaf, anthracnose of Hevea brasiliensis,14 Aug. 2010, O. Castro, culture <strong>CBS</strong> 129827 = CH2.Notes: <strong>Colletotrichum</strong> leaf disease (CLD) has been considered to bea maj<strong>or</strong> cause of declining yields of Hevea brasiliensis in SoutheastAsia (Brown & Soepena 1994, Jayasinghe et al. 1997, Saha et al.2002). The pathogen was at first routinely identified as C. heveae(Petch 1906) and then assumed to be C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides (s. lat.)(Carpenter & Stevenson 1954, von Arx 1957).Jayasinghe and colleagues found that the maj<strong>or</strong>ity of strainsexamined from Sri Lanka belonged to C. acutatum (s. lat.), andSaha et al. (2002) rep<strong>or</strong>ted this <strong>species</strong> from India as well; it is likelythat similar strains are widespread in the region. Saha et al. (2002)revealed that C. acutatum (s. lat.) causes the raised spot symptom,while C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides (s. lat.) causes both anthracnose andpapery lesions on Hevea leaves in India. In a study from Sri Lanka,Thambugala & Deshappriya (2009) found that C. acutatum causeslarger lesions and can act synergistically in combination with C.gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides to cause CLD. Strain IMI 383015 is one of thestrains causing the raised spots on Hevea leaves in India. It wasincluded in the study of Saha et al. (2002) and also in the study ofLubbe et al. (2004), who generated its ITS and TUB2 sequences.The TUB2 sequence of strain IMI 383015 (AY376556) was alsoincluded in the TUB2 phylogeny by Shivas & Tan (2009); the strainwas identified there as C. simmonsii.It is necessary to consider the possible conspecificity of C.laticiphilum with three previously described taxa, all publishedby Petch in the same paper (Petch 1906) from collections madefrom Hevea in Sri Lanka. These were named as C. heveae,Gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ium heveae [nomenclaturally unrelated to C. heveae]and Gm. alb<strong>or</strong>ubrum. All three <strong>species</strong> were regarded as synonymsof C. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides by von Arx (1957).<strong>Colletotrichum</strong> heveae was described with very wide conidia,measuring 18–24 × 7.5–8 µm (Petch 1906), larger than any ofthe <strong>species</strong> in the C. acutatum <strong>species</strong> <strong>complex</strong>, and possiblywww.studiesinmycology.<strong>or</strong>g75

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