Abstract
Heteroconium tulsiense is a new species collected on dry twig litter at Tiger Reserve areas (Tulsi Range), Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is illustrated, described and compared with related taxa. This fungus is characterized by unevenly pigmented conidia having pale brown ends, and produced in chains of up to four. The isolate was identified on the basis of its asexual morph. A key to 20 valid species of Heteroconium is presented.
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Chowdhry, P.N. (1981) A new species of Heteroconium from India. Indian Phytopathology 33: 361–362.
Crous, P.W., Groenewald, J.Z. & Wingfield, M.J. (2006) Heteroconium eucalypti Crous and MJ Wingf., sp. nov. Fungal Planet: A Global Initiative to Promote the Study of Fungal Biodiversity 10. [https://www.fungalplanet.org/content/pdf-files/fp_art-010_14-08-06.pdf]
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Index Fungorum. (2022) Fungal names search. http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/Names.asp (accessed 7 February 2022)
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Matsushima, T. (1983) Matsushima Mycological Memoirs 3. Published by the author, Kobe, Japan. pp. 11. https://doi.org/10.2307/3793127
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Morgan-Jones, G. (1975) Notes on hyphomycetes XIV. The genus Heteroconium. Mycotaxon 4: 498–503.
Panwar, K.S. & Chauhan, J.S. (1977) Two new species of hyphomycetes. Current Science 46 (22): 786–787.
Petrak, F. (1949) Neue Hyphomyzeten-Gattungen aus Ekuador. Sydowia 3: 259–266.
Qiu, L, Shi, X.G., Zhang, X.G., Castañeda-Ruíz, R.F., Xia, J.W. & Ma, J. (2021) Globoramichloridium delicatum and Heteroconium simile spp. nov. from southern China Mycotaxon 136: 579–586. https://doi.org/10.5248/136.579
Ren, S.C., Ma, J. & Zhang, X.G. (2012) Two new Heteroconium species and two other forest microfungi newly recorded from China. Mycotaxon 119: 361–367. https://doi.org/10.5248/119.361
Taylor, J.E., Crous, P.W. & Palm, M.E. (2001) Foliar and stem fungal pathogens of Proteaceae in Hawaii. Mycotaxon 78: 449–490.
Varghese, K.I. & Rao VG. (1980) An undescribed species of Heteroconium (Hyphomycetes) from India. Current Science 49: 359.
Woronichin, N.N. (1925) Über die Capnodiales. Annales Mycologici 23: 174–178.
Xia, J.W., Ren, S.C., Ma, L.G. & Zhang, X.G. (2012) Heteroconium bannaense sp. nov. and a new record of the genus from China. Mycotaxon 121: 413–417. https://doi.org/10.5248/121.413
Zhang, Y.D., Ma, J., Ma, L.G. & Zhang, X.G. (2010) new species of Heteroconium from Fujian, China. Mycotaxon 114: 315–318. https://doi.org/10.5248/114.315