Foliicolous fungi of Wayanad District in Kerala State, India

Abstract

This comprises an account of the 580 foliicolous fungal collections collected along with the host leaves of 220 host plants belonging to 70 families of flowering plants from Wayanad District resulted in recording 175 fungal species distributed among 29 fungal genera, belonging to black mildews, Meliolales: namely, Amazonia (6), Appendiculella (1), Armatella (6), Asteridiella (12), Irenopsis (7), Meliola (96); Meliolinaceae: Meliolina (1); Asterinales: Asterinaceae: Asterina (47), Asterolibertia (1), Ishwaramyces (1), Meliolaster (1), Prillieuxina (2), Asterostomella (1), Asterostomula (1), Mahanteshamyces (1), Lembosiaceae: Echidnodella (1), Lembosia (2), Schiffnerulaceae: Questieriella (2), Sarcinella (4), Schiffnerula (9); Phyllachoraceae: phyllachora (5); Hyphomycetes: Acrodictys (1), Spiropes (3), Ampullifera (1), Passalora (1), Colemaniella (1), Acremoniula (1); Other Ascomycetes: Leptosphaerulina (1), Rehmidothis (1).