Erysiphe adenantherae Bagyanarayana & Srinivasulu

Data Set Maintenance: Data set compiled and standard item. Data set author(s): Kainz C. (03-01-13). Data set not revised.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: species. Erysiphaceae Tul. & C. Tul.; Erysiphales.

Taxonomic Literature: Taxonomic notes: +ascomata outer wall cells irregularly polygonal, 7.7-24.8 µm in diam.;
+appressoria lobed;
+conidiophores foot-cells cylindric, followed by larger and two shorter cells;. Bagyanarayana G. & Srinivasulu U., J. Indian Bot. Soc. 80: 133-137 (2001).

Biogeography: Continent: Asia-Tropical. Country or state(s): India.

Ecology: Growing on leaves, hypophyllous (mostly) or amphigenous. Host or Phorophyte Taxonomy: Leguminosae-Papilionoideae.

Reproduction Strategy: With sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Cleistothecioid, .095-.18 mm in diam.. Margin: External filaments present; .5-2 µm long, 3.5-6.2 µm in diameter, pigmented (when mature, brown throughout or paler upwards), numerous, growing all across the lower half of the ascocarp, smooth or rough, not ramified or ramified, dichotomously branched, septate (2-3-septate).

Asci: 5-13 asci per ascocarp, sub-globose or clavate, not stipitate, 55-71 µm long, 25-40 µm wide; dehiscence unitunicate.

Ascospores: 1–2, c. 4, or c. 8 per ascus, spores 3-6 per ascus, subglobose or ellipsoid, 15-24 µm long, 9-12 µm wide.

Conidiophores: Basal cells 18.6-46.5 µm long, 6.2-9.3 µm wide. Conidium Formation: Conidiogenous cells single. Conidia: Ellipsoid or cylindrical; 21.7-40 µm long, 12.4-18.6 µm wide.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)