Uncinula azanzae Yadav

Data Set Maintenance: Data set compiled and standard item. Data set author(s): Kainz C. (00-07-31). Data set revised.

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

Type Information: Type: Uncinula azanzae Yadav.

Taxonomic Literature: Taxonomic notes: +ascomata outer wall cells obscure, polygonal to rounded, ca. 8-20 µm diam.;. Braun U., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 89: 1-700 [536] (1987).

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

Ecology: Biotroph; phytopathogenic; growing on leaves, amphigenous. Host or Phorophyte Taxonomy: Malvaceae.

Reproduction Strategy: With sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Cleistothecioid, orbicular, forming independently from the host thallus or mycelium, scattered or gregarious, .1-.185 mm in diam.. Margin: External filaments present (irregularly curved, sometimes subundulate or angularly bent; width equal throughout or somewhat increasing upwards, but circinate part not enlarged, mostly narrowed towards the tip, occasionally width decreasing from the base to the middle of the stalk and then increasing); circinate or sub-helicoid, .75-1.25-(1.5) µm long, 5-10 µm in diameter, hyaline, very numerous, 35-100 per mm², growing more or less between the lower and upper hald of the ascocarp, flexuose or stiff and straight, thin or moderatly thick (below), not ramified, aseptate or septate (0-2-septate).

Asci: 6-15 asci per ascocarp, not stipitate (subsessile) or indistinctly stipitate, 40-60 µm long, 20-30 µm wide; dehiscence unitunicate.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, spores 8 per ascus, subglobose, ellipsoid, or ovoid, 16-20 µm long, 12-16 µm wide; septa absent.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)