New Zealand Journal of Botany abstract
Cercosporoid hyphomycetes from New Caledonia and some other South Pacific
islands
U. BRAUN
Martin-Luther-Universität
FB. Biologie
Institut für Geobotanik und Botanischer Garten
Neuwerk 21
D-06099 Halle, Germany
J. MOUCHACCA
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Laboratoire de Cryptogamie
12, rue Buffon
F-75005 Paris, France
E. H. C. MCKENZIE
Herbarium PDD
Landcare Research
Private Bag 92170
Auckland, New Zealand
Abstract In the present paper, cercosporoid hyphomycetes
known from New Caledonia, Vanuatu (New Hebrides), Wallis and Futuna, and French
Polynesia are summarised and discussed, along with a few collections from Fiji
and Samoa. New species
Cercospora phaseolicola,
Cladosporium
nigrelloides,
Phaeoramularia malpighiae,
Pseudocercospora
alocasiae,
P. aracearum,
P. artocarpicola,
P.
barringtoniicola,
P. brassicae,
P. dioscoreae,
P.
musicola,
P. pipturicola,
P. polysciatis-pinnatae,
P.
scaevolae, and
P. vanuatuensis, the new variety
Passalora
mucunae var.
denticulata, and the new genus
Scolecostigmina
are described.
The new combinations Mycovellosiella gliricidiae, M.
nervisequens, Passalora arachidicola, P. colocasiae, P.
mucunae, Pseudocercospora alphitoniae, P. morindicola, P.
musae-sapienti, P. pterocarpicola var. guzmanii, P. vignicola, P.
vexillatae, Scolecostigmina confluens, S. mangiferae, and
S. tirumalensis are made. The genus Oreophylla is reduced to
synonymy with Passalora.
Keywords cercosporoid hyphomycetes; fungal diversity;
checklist; South Pacific islands; taxonomy; new taxa; new combinations
B98024
Received 22 April 1998; accepted 11 September 1998
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