Three Aquatic Hyphomycetes New to Kumaun Himalaya, India

Ruchi Jalal; Saraswati Bisht; Saima Altaf

doi:10.36808/if/2024/v150i2/169088

Three Aquatic Hyphomycetes New to Kumaun Himalaya, India

Authors

Ruchi Jalal Department of Botany, I.P.G.G.P.G. College of Commerce, Haldwani-263139
Saraswati Bisht Department of Botany, I.P.G.G.P.G. College of Commerce, Haldwani-263139
Saima Altaf Department of Botany, I.P.G.G.P.G. College of Commerce, Haldwani-263139

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2024/v150i2/169088

Keywords:

Aquatic Hyphomycetes, Foothill Region, Freshwater Streams, Irrigation Canals, New Records.

Abstract

Aquatic hyphomycetes are the fungi with distinctive conidial shapes mostly inhabiting in dead submerged leaf litter of fresh water-bodies. Samples collected from freshwater streams and irrigation canals of Kumaun Himalayan foothill regions, were processed, incubated and observed for identification. It was interesting to isolate three species of aquatic hyphomycetes namely, Dicranidion sp. Harkness, Monacrosporium lysipagum (Drechsler) Subram and Wiesneriomyces laurinus (Tassi) Kirk as new records from Kumaun Himalaya.

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