Abstract
Two species of Gliocephalotrichum were isolated from fallen fruits of the medicinal plant Terminalia chebula collected from the forests of Western Ghats, India. On the basis of morphological characters and ITS1–5.8S–ITS2 sequence similarity, the fungi have been identified as Gliocephalotrichum longibrachium and G. bulbilium. For the former species, this is the first report of its occurrence from India, whereas the latter, showing significant morphological variability, has been known previously from India.
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The authors thank two unknown reviewers for their constructive criticism and editing of our manuscript and Dr. M.C. Srinivasan for his critical suggestions in improving the manuscript. The authors also thank the Director, MACS’Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, for providing the facility and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, New Delhi, for setting up the National Facility for Culture Collection of Fungi (No. SP/SO/PS-55/2005) at ARI. The authors do not have any conflict of interest.
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The herbarium sample is deposited in Ajrekar Mycological Herbarium (AMH 9279) at MACS’ Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India (AMH, according to Holmgren et al. 1990), and the in vitro pure cultures isolated from designated herbarium specimen are deposited in National Fungal Culture Collection of India (NFCCI-WDCM 932), MACS’ Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India.
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Singh, S.K., Yadav, L.S., Singh, P.N. et al. Additions to Gliocephalotrichum species (anamorphic Hypocreales) from fruit litter of the medicinal plant Terminalia chebula in the Western Ghats, India. Mycoscience 53, 391–395 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10267-011-0178-4
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