Forest Fungi of Central India
FOREST FUNGI OF CENTRAL INDIA
By
R.K.VERMA
NIDHI SHARMA
K.K.SONI
JAMALUDDIN
Abstract
Classification of plants in general and fungi in particular is a neglected discipline and there are very few institutions where the work is going on. It might be due to the indirect relation of human being with fungi. There are only few fungi directly related and utilized by human being. Although mycophagy (using fungi as food) is a practice since ancient time of Buddha but till now it is restricted to a very lesser population. However, some forest fauna directly eat fruit bodies of macro fungi.
Fungi play a very important role in growth of forest trees and balance of forest ecosystem. Some fungi like mycorrhizal fungi directly associated with growth of forest trees by helping them in nutrient uptake. Besides mycorrhizal fungi there are fungi, which play an important role in decomposition of forest litter and nutrient cycling. Off course there are some fungi, which are harmful to forest plant causing damage to root system, stem, branches, foliage, seed, wood, etc. Foliage fungi destroy the leaves in standing trees, for example lendia and dhawa, which naturally attract the attention of mycologists and forest pathologists. Wood decay fungi destroy a lot of wood and timber every year in standing trees as well as in wood depots.
In the recent past special attention of man is on edible and medicinal fungi occurring in the organically grown forests. A person who taste naturally occurring pleuroti, Termitomyces, tuber, etc., can never forgot them. Utilization of wood decaying fungi and poisonous mushrooms in medicine is under intensive research.
Despite the fact that the fungi, which at present have got a status of its own kingdom, play a very important role in forest ecosystem are less explored. An effort has been made by the Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur to explore and study them. In the present book, which is first of this kind, we compile all fungi occurring in forest of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. A large number of collections of forest fungi has been made from forest of the central India and preserved at mycology herbarium of the Institute; the fungi were identified and documented. Many fungi were found new to science, while many others are reported as new host and fungal records from India are reported in the present work.
The book compiles all the fungi occurring in forests of MP and CG with their full description and illustrations. In this endeavour 18 lower fungi, 114 ascomycete, 53 basidiomycete were described and systematically arranged following the recent classification. At the end the book include listing of fungi forest and host wise followed by bibliography, fungus index and host index. List of new genera, new species new records of fungi and new host records reported in this book are tabulated below:
S.No. / Name of the fungus / Host /Remark
/Acarocybella jasminicola
/Shorea robusta
/ New record/
Acrodictiella
/Manilkera hexandra
/ NEW GENUS/
Acrodictiella indica
/Manilkera hexandra
/ New species/ Acrostroma sterculiae /
Sterculia urens
/ New species/ Acrostroma madhucae /
Madhuca latifolia
/ New species/
Acremonium tectonae
/Tectona grandis rust spore
/ New record/
Arthrinium phaeospermum
/Dendarocalamus strictus
/ New host record/
Arthrinium sphaerospermum
/Vetiveria zizaniodes
/ New record/
Alternaria tenuissima
/Withania somnifera, Erythrina suberosa
/ New host record/
Antrodia albida
/ Terminalia tomentosa, Cleaistanthus collinus / New record/ Aplosporella cesatii / Wrightia tinctoria / New host record
/ Aplosporella grandinea / Lannea coromandelica (grandis) / New record
/
Biscogniauxia nummularia
/ Shorea robusta, Syzyjium cumuni / New record/
Botryobasidium subcoronatum
/ Pinus roxburghii / New record/ Camarosporium anacardii / Mangifera indica / New record
/
Cercospora apii
/ Eranthemum nervosum, Saccopetalum tomentosum and Pogostemon lanceolatum / New host records/ Cercospora platycerii / Fern / New record
/
Cladosporium cladosporioides
/Melastoma malabathricum
/ New host record/
Cladosporium herbarum
/Mitragyna parviflora, Acacia caesia, Ageratum conezoides
/ New host records/
Cladosporium nigrellum
/ Argeria sp. / New host record/
Cladosporium oxysporum
/ Buchanania lanzan, Cassia sp.,Ceiba pentendra / New host record/
Cladosporium psoraleae
/ Ficus tsiela / New host record/
Cladosporium tenuissimum
/ Adina cordifolia, Gardenia latifolia, Dalbergia latifolia / New host record/
Colletotrichum lindemuthianum
/Ougeinia oojeinensis
/ New host record/
Colletotrichum ricini
/Jatropha curcas
/ New host record/ Corynespora combreti / Anogeissus pendula / New host record
/ Corynespora crotalariicola / Bauhinia vahlii / New record
/ Corynespora gorakhpurensis / Erythrina suberosa / New host record
/ Corynespora heterospora /
Cleaistanthus collinus
/ New host record/ Corynrespora pogostemonis / Pogostemon lanceolatum /
New species
/ Corynespora premnigena / Pygmaeopremna herbacea / New host record/ Corynespora woodfordiae /
Woodfordia fruiticosa
/New species
/ Curvularia geniculata / Eucalyptus territicornis, Alstonia scholaris / New host record/
Daedalea flavida
/Pinus roxburghii
/ New host record/
Daldinia concentrica
/Diospyros melanoxylon, Ceiba pentandra
/ New host record/ Denticularia terminalae / Terminalia tomentosa /
New species
/Dendrographium interseminatum
/Wrightia tinctoria
/ New record/
Diachanthodes novo-guineensis
/ Shorea robusta / New record/
Diatrype celastrina
/ Celastrus paniculata / New record/
Diatrypella semecarpi
/ Semecarpus anacardrum /New species
/Didymosphaeria rubicola
/ Dendrocalamus strictus / New record/
Dothiorella indica
/ Grewia tiliaefolia / New host record/ Earliella scabrosa /
Alstonia scholaris, Diospyros melanoxylon
Ceiba pentandra / New host record/
Excipulariopsis narsapurensis
/Mitragyna parviflora
/ New host record/ Favolus tenuiculus /
Nerium odorum
/ New record/ Flavodon flavus / Shorea robusta / New host record
/ Funalia leonine / Terminalia tomentosa / New host record
/ Ganoderma applanatum / Pinus roxburghii / New host record
/
Helicobasidium compactum
/ Polyalthea longifolia Syzygium cumini, Acacia nilotica / New host record/
Heterobasidion annosum
/ Shorea robusta / New host record/ Hexagonia apiaria / Zizyphus xylopyra / New host record
/ Hexagonia tenuis / Tectona grandis / New host record
/ Hymenochaete fuliginosa / Chloroxylon switenia Lantana camara / New host record
/ Hymenochaete semistupposa / Wrightia tinctoria / New host record
/ Hypoxylon caries / Diospyros melanoxylon, Tectona grandis and Chloroxylon swetinia / New record
/
Hypoxylon dendrocalami
/ Dendrocalamus strictus / New species/
Hypoxylon diatrypeoides
/ Shorea robusta / New host record/
Hypoxylon haematostroma
/ Ficus benghalensis / New host record/
Hypoxylon fuscopurpureum
/ Lagerstromia parviflora, Holoptelia integrifolia / New host record/ Hypoxylon rubiginosum var. tropicum / Alstonia scholaris / New host record
/ Hypoxylon rubrostromaticum / Dendrocalamus strictus / New host record
/ Hypoxylon spiralisH. spiralis / Bauhinia purpurea /
New species
/ Hypoxylon stygium / Shorea robusta / New host record/ Hypoxylon vogesiacum /
Syzygium jambolana
/ New host record/ Hysterium jabalpurensis / Dead wood and
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis /
New species
/ Junghuhnia crustacea / Albizia lebbek / New record/
Junghuhnia luteoalba
/ Shorea robusta / New record/
Kamalomyces
/ Dendrocalamus strictus /NEW GENUS
/Kamalomyces indicus
/ Dendrocalamus strictus /New species
/Kameshwaromyces butiicolous
/Butea monosperma
/New species
/ Meliola ougeinae / Ougeinia oojeinensis / New species/ Memnoniella echinata / Sterculia urens / New host record
/ Memnoniella levispora / Dendrocalamus strictus / New host record
/ Microporus vernicipes /
Eugenia jambolana
/ New record/ Monodictys castanea / Tectona grandis / New host record
/ Myrothecium roridum / Aegle marmelos / New host record
/ Nectria verrucospora /
Dendrocalamus strictus
/ New record/ Nemania serpens var. serpens / Tectona grandis / New record
/
Nigroporus vinosus
/ Pinus roxburghii / New record/ Oidium phyllanthi / Phyllanthus embelica / New host record
/
Paathramaya sundara
/Terminalia tomentosa
/ New host record/
Passalora erythrinae
/Erythrina suberosa
/ New record/
Pestalotia albomaculans
/ Flamingia chapar / New host record/
Pestalotiopsis versicolor
/ Buchanania lanzan / New host record/
Phaeoseptoria shoreae
/ Shorea robusta /New species
/ Phanerochaete tuberculata / Embellica officinalis / New record/
Phlebia subserialis
/ Shorea robusta / New record/ Phellinus caryophylli / Syzygium cumini / New host record
/ Phellinus luctuosus /
Morus indica
/ New host record/ Phellinus merrillii /
Peltophorum
/ New record/ Phellinus rimosus /
Saccopetalum tomentosum
/ New record/ Phellinus senex /
Dendrocalamus strictus
/ New host record/ Phomopsis ougeiniae /
Ougeinia oojeinensis
/New species
/ Phomopsis mendax /Albizia lebbek
/ New host record/
Phyllachora acaciae subsp. parkiae
/Parkia biglandulosa
/ New Record/
Phyllachora ramicola
/Bauhinia racemosa
/New species
/Phytophthora cactorum
/Azadirachta indica
/ New host record/
Pisolithus tinctorius
/Dendrocalamus strictus, Azadirachta indica
/ New host record/ Pithomyces ellisii /
Grewia hirsuta
/ New host record/ Pleurotus membranaceus /
Mangifera indica
/ New host record/
Polyporus grammocephalus
/Anthocephalus cadamba
/ New host record/
Polyporus perennis
/Anogeissus pendula
/ New host record/
Poria corticola
/Anogeissus latifolia
/ New host record/
Prathigada terminaliae
/Semecarpus anacardeum
/ New host record/
Pseudocercospora abelmoschi
/Abelmoschus ficulneos
/ New host record/ Pseudocercospora isorae / Helicterus isora / New species
/ Pseudocercospora punjabensis / Vallaris solanacea / New host record
/ Pseudolachnea scolecospora / Dendrocalamus strictus / New host record
/ Pseudospiropes ehretiae / Cellastrus paniculata / New host record
/ Pseudospiropes shoreae / Shorea robusta /
New species
/Puccinia ruelliae
/ Schrebera swietenioides / New host record/
Pyrofomes tricolor
/ Terminalia tomentosa / New host record/ Phellinus merrillii /
Peltophorum ferruginium
/ New host record/
Pyrofomes tricolor
/ Terminalia tomentosa / New host record/
Rehmiodothis bambusae
/ Bambusa vulgaris(yellow) /New species
/ Rigidoporopsis macrospora / Stereospermus suaveolens / New host record/ Sarcinella quercina / Syzyjium heynianum / New host record
/ Schizopora paradoxa /
Zizyphus xylopyra
/ New record/ Seimatosporium grammitum /
Hardwickia binata
/ New record/
Serpula lacrymans
/ Prosopis juliflora / New host record/
Sirosporium aeglicola
/ Aegle mormelos /New species
/ Skeletocutis amorpha / Anacardeum occidentals, Pterocarpus marsupium / New host record/
Sphaerotheca lanestris
/ Butea parviflora / New host record/
Spongipellis spumeus
/ Albizia procera / New host record/
Stenella eugeiniicola
/Eucalyptus hybrid
/ New host record/ Stenella flacourticolaStenella / Flacourtia ramonchii /
New species
/ Seimatosporium grammitum /Hardwickia binata
/ New host record/ Trichobotrys effusa / Dendrocalamus strictus, Bambusa arundinacea / New host record
/
Torula herbarum
/ Leucaena leucocephala Eupatorium sp / New host record/
Trametes tephroleuca
/Garuja pinnata
/ New record/ Trichobotrys effusa / Dendrocalamus strictus, Bambusa arundinacea / New host record
/ Valsa ceratophora /
Morus indica
/ New host record