Two new species of Beltrania, reported from forest flora of South Sagar forest division of Central India using morphological taxonomic techniques

Abstract

During the investigation of fungal flora in their terrestrial ecological niche, very conspicuous symptoms were observed on plants (Pyrus amygdalus Batsch, Mesua ferrea L.). After the microscopic study it was observed that both the plants were infected with the same fungal genus Beltrania. Later on these fungal organisms were studied in detail by using morpho – mycotaxonomic techniques and found that although they were the member of same genus but there morphological taxonomic attributes were different and on that basis they were supposed to be the new taxon of the species rank viz. Beltrania rosacearum sp. nov. and Beltrania calophyllacearum sp. nov. This paper provides the illustration and description of B. rosacearum sp. nov. and B. calophyllacearum sp. nov.