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Mycologia, 101(3), 2009, pp. 401-416.
© 2009 by The Mycological Society of America

Brazilian mycobiota of the aquatic weed Sagittaria montevidensis


D.J. Soares 1
R.W. Barreto

     Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-000, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

U. Braun

     Martin-Luther-Universität, Institut für Biologie, Geobotanik und Botanischer Garten, Herbarium, Neuwerk 21, D-06099, Halle, Germany

Nine species of fungi on the aquatic weed Sagittaria montevidensis (arrowhead) in southern and southeastern Brazil were collected, identified, described and illustrated in a survey for possible biological control agents against this weed. Seven of them are anamorphic fungi, Alternaria alternata, Botrytis cinerea, Cercospora apii, Cercospora sagittariae, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Plectosporium alismatis and Pseudocercospora arthrospora, and two smut fungi, Doassansiopsis deformans and Narasimhania alismatis. All represent new host records or new geographic localities for occurrences of the fungi. Pseudocercospora arthrospora is new to science. It differs from known species of genus Pseudocercospora mainly by its subhyaline and disarticulating conidia and host. This fungus is close to Thedgonia but can be distinguished for this genus by its conidiogenesis. Based on the description and disease symptoms Cylindrocarpon sagittariae, recorded on S. trifolia from Japan, is regarded here as a later synonym of Plectosporium alismatis. Preliminary observations of the fungi in the field and in culture suggest that four of these have potential for use as biocontrol agents against S. montevidensis, namely C. sagittariae, C. gloeosporioides, P. alismatis and P. arthrospora.

Key words: Alismataceae, anamorphic fungi, aquatic weeds, fungal survey, giant arrowhead, smut fungi

1 Corresponding author. E-mail: dartjs{at}yahoo.com.br






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