Pratibha Jalmi

Dhempe College of Arts and Science · Botany

A new species, Aureobasidium khasianum, was found growing on decaying leaves of Wightia speciosissima (Paulowniaceae) in India. It is described here with newly observed morphological features such as formation of setae having adhering conidiogenous cells and producing monilioid conidia. A phylogenetic analysis based on ITS and LSU gene regions is p...

A new asexual fungus, Fusiconidium indicum, found growing on dried leaves of Mesua ferrea collected from a botanical garden in Meghalaya, India, is described and illustrated. The fungus is characterized by polyblastic, sympodial conidiogenous cells that are integrated and terminal as well as intercalary with solitary, dry, acropleurogenous, simple,...

A new species of asexual ascomycete, genus Torula, is described. Torula goaensis was found growing on decaying plant litter collected from Bondla, Goa, India and differs from previously known Torula species by having two unique types of conidia. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of internal transcribed spacers and large subunit regions shows its plac...

Trichoglossum rasum, a rare species in the genus Trichoglossum, previously reported only from New Caledonia in 1909, was recently observed in Khasi hills, India. This paper illustrates important distributional record along with first molecular phylogenetic placement of the species. A review of all 19 hitherto accepted species in the genus is also p...

Acrodontium crateriforme was isolated from pitcher trap liquid of Nepenthes khasiana in Khasi hills of Meghalaya. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of culture obtained from plating of pitcher trap liquid confirmed the identity of the species. The association of fungus is reported in this manuscript. Pitcher plant trap biota is matter of interest to m...

Speiropsis pedatospora, an aero-aquatic fungus, was isolated from submerged plant litter in freshwater streams from India. Based on analysis of combined ITS and LSU sequence data, the species was positioned in the family Weisneriomycetaceae, as a sister group to Tubeufiales in the Dothideomycetes, instead of its current placement in the order Jahnu...

The genus Mycosisymbrium was described in 1994 from dead leaves of Vaccinium macrocarpon and is monotypified by M. cirrhosum. There have been no further records of this species. During the study of litter degrading asexual fungi from the Western Ghats of Goa we collected M. cirrhosum from leaf litter of Gnetum ula and successfully obtained a cultur...

Studies on litter degrading microfungi from forests of Western Ghats is discovering many fungi, some of which are very rare in nature. This paper illustrates Thysanorea papuana and is the first report of its occurrence in India, extending distribution from its originally described locality of Papua New Guinea. The genus Thysanorea is monotypic and...

Pithomyces flavus collected from litter of palm, Calamus thwaitesii from Dudhsagar, Goa, India is re-described as sexual morph of Astrosphaeriella vesuvius. Combine molecular phylogenetic analysis of ITS, LSU, SSU and RPB2 is provided to support this new connection and identity of sexual morph.

The hyphomycete Pseudogliophragma indicum produces loosely constructed and often frayed synnemata, with a brown stipe and a divergent capitulum with monoblastic conidiogenous cells and deeply constricted phragmoconidia. Ramaraomyces corticola was described nine years after Ps. indicum with very similar micro-morphological characters. Both genera ar...

Most hyphomycetous conidial fungi cannot be presently placed in a natural classification. They need recollecting and sequencing so that phylogenetic analysis can resolve their taxonomic affinities. The type species of the asexual genera, Bahusandhika, Cancellidium and Pseudoepicoccum were recollected, isolated in culture, and the ITS and LSU gene r...

This invention discloses a process to produce high amounts of extracellular tyrosinase from the fungus Gliocephalotrichum MTCC 5489 by growing the fungus in a suitable culture medium under conditions of appropriate pH, temperature and oxygen conditions. The fungus is capable of producing tyrosinase enzyme having both of monophenolase and diphenolas...

A new hyphomycete genus, Jayarambhatia, is proposed, characterized by mononematous branched septate pale brown smooth conidiophores with terminal hyaline phialidic conidiogenous cells with long slender necks and minute collarettes. Numerous smooth aseptate narrowly obclavate filiform conidia double over and pack densely together to form ovate mucou...

A new species, Sympodioplanus goaensis, occurring on decaying unidentified twigs collected from Goa, India, is described and illustrated. The fungus is characterized by numerous conidiogenous cells that are polyblastic, sympodial, integrated, and terminal as well as intercalary and by naviculiform 1–2-septate conidia

The forests of Western Ghats, are a treasure house for new and interesting fungi. Tropical forests produce a large amount of litter which is a favoured source of nutrient for fungal colonization. Fungi are the major degraders of plant litter which is basically composed of cellulose and lignin. Plant litter is divided into leaf litter, branch litter...

Melanins are commonly produced by bacteria, fungi, plants and animals, where they play a role in many biological functions. They protect organisms against UV and ionizing radiations. Their potential applications in biotechnological industries such as cosmetics and paints, where UV protection is required, are hampered by the lack of suitable organis...

Anaselenosporella indica and Arachnophora goanensis, two new species of anamorphic fungi isolated from decaying plant litter collected from the forest of Goa, India, are described and illustrated. Anaselenosporella indica, found growing on dead twig of an unidentified plant, is characterized by polyblastic, sympodial, discrete, conidiogenous cells...

Two new species of hyphomycetes isolated from decaying plant litter collected from Goa, India, are described and illustrated. Dendryphiopsis goanensis, found on decaying bark of an unidentified tree, is characterized by mostly polytretic, integrated, discrete, terminal, and intercalary conidiogenous cells. Stauriella indica, collected from decaying...

Caliciopsis indica sp. nov. is described from leaf lesions of kokum (Garcinia indica, Clusiaceae) from the Western Ghats, India. Caliciopsis indica is morphologically similar to C. myrticola but differs in having larger ascomata, longer asci and smaller ascospores. Phylogenetic analysis of partial 28S rRNA gene sequence data has confirmed its place...

Two new species of hyphomycetes, Digitoramispora tambdisurlensis and Spondylocladiopsis aseptata, isolated from decaying plant litter collected from the Western Ghat forests of Tambdi Surla in Goa State, and Calicut in Kerala State, India, respectively, are described and illustrated.

Three conidial fungi, Tetraploa circinata sp. nov., Vamsapriya mahabaleshwarensis sp. nov. and Gliophragma setosum, isolated from plant litter and collected at Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, India, are described and illustrated.

Two new hyphomycetes, Chalara indica and Sorocybe indicus, collected from the forests of Western Ghats in Goa, India, are illustrated and described in this paper. Chalara indica sp. nov., based on a fungus isolated from fresh leaves of Areca catechu (Arecaceae), is characterized by fasciculate, mononematous conidiophores with percurrently regenerat...

Natarajania indica gen. at sp. nov. genus of dematiaceous hyphomycetes

Ceeveesubramaniomyces litseai gen et sp. Nov on mature leaves of Litsea Sp. (Lauraceae)