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Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 05 March 2013 | 5(3): 3701–3788Western GhatsSpecial SeriesMonographFoliicolous fungi of Silent Valley National Park, Kerala, IndiaV.B. Hosagoudar 1 & M.C. Riju 21,2Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India1vbhosagoudar@rediffmail.com (corresponding author), 2 rcmakkiyil@gmail.comISSNOnline 0974-7907Print 0974-7893OPEN ACCESSAbstract: The work is the result of the foliicolous fungal collections made in the Silent Valley National Park, Palghat, Kerala, since 1985,resulted in recording 139 fungal taxa belonging to 30 fungal genera: Acremoniula (1), Acrodictys (1), Amazonia (3), Aphanopeltis (1),Armatella (4), Asteridiella (12), Asterina (32), Asterostomella (2), Asterostomula (1), Balladyna (2), Didymopsorella (1), Diplococcium (1),Dysrhynchis (1), Echidnodella (1), Endophyllum (1), Eupelte (1), Irenopsis (1), Leptosphaerulina (1), Meliola (47), Meliolina (1), Oidium (1),Palawaniella (1), Phakopsora (1), Prataprajella (1), Prillieuxina (1), Puccinia (1), Sarcinella (3), Schiffnerula (4), Spiropes (2) and Teratosperma(1), infected 138 plants belonging to 55 host families. The description of all these taxa are provided with illustrations. This area is the typelocality for several fungal taxa.Keywords: India, Kerala, leaf, microfungi, taxonomy.Malayalam Abstract: tIc-f-¯nse ]me-¡mSv PnÃ-bn 1985 apX sskeâ v hmen \mj-W ]mÀ¡nse ØnXn sN¿p t^men-tIm-eÊv ^wK tiJ-c-W-amWv Cu]T-\ ¯nsâ CXn-hr-¯w.139 ^wK SmIvkbn \npw ap¸-tXmfw ^wK sP\-d-Isf Kth-j-IÀ Ønco-I-cn-¨p. A{In-tam-Wn-tbmf (1), A{In-Sn-IvSÊv (1), Ba-tkm-Wnb (3),A^m-t\m-s]ÂSnkv (1), AÀam-Snà (4), AkvSn-cn-Sn-bnà (12), AkvSn-dn\ (32), AkvSnscm sÌmsaà (2), AkvSn-tcm-sÌm-ayqà (1), s_à Ubv\ (2), SnSn-tam-]vskm-dà (1), Snt¸m-tIm¢nw (1),ssSssd³OoÊv (1), CI-dn-Svt\m-Snà (1), C³tSm-ss^Ãw (1), bqs]evSv (1), sFsdt\m ]knÊ (1), se]vtämsskl-dp-en\ (1), saen-tbmf (47), saen-tbm-en\m (1), HmSnbw (1), ]mem-hm-\nsbÃ(1), ^mtIm-]vtkmdm (1), {]Xm-]cmPà (1), {]nÃp-Ivkn\ (1), ]Ivkn-\nb (1), kmÀkn-s\à (3), jn^vs\-dpà (4), kvss]tdm]vkv (2), sSdm-kv]À½ (1) apX-em-bh P\-d-bnÂs¸« ^wK-Êp-IÄ A³]-¯©v tlmÌv IpSpw-_-¯n-embn, \qän-ap-¸-s¯-t«mfw kky-§-fn tcJ-s¸-Sp-¯n. ^wK-Êp-Isf tcJm-Nn{Xw hgn {]Xn-]m-Zn-¸n-¨n-«p- v. Kth-j-W-¯nsâ `mK-ambn\nc-h[n ^wK-Êp-Isf BZy-ambn Cu Øe¯v \np Ønco-I-cn-¨n-«p- v.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o3302.01-88Editor: R.K. Verma, Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur, IndiaDate of publication: 05 March 2013 (online & print)Manuscript details: Ms # o3302 | Received 13 August 2012 | Final received 05 January 2013 | Finally accepted 18 January 2013Citation: Hosagoudar, V.B. & M.C. Riju (2013). Foliicolous fungi of Silent Valley National Park, Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(3): 3701–3788;doi:10.11609/JoTT.o3302.01-88Copyright: © Hosagoudar & Riju 2013. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. JoTT allows unrestricted use of this article in any medium,reproduction and distribution by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publication.Funding: This work sponsored by Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi and Kerala State Council for Science,Technology & Environment, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.Competing Interest: None.Acknowledgements: This would not have been possible without the permission of Forest Department, Govt. of Kerala and the financial support of Departmentof Environment and Forests, New Delhi. We gratefully acknowledge Dr. B. Shivaraju, Additional Chief Conservator of Forests, for his consistant interest in theprogress of our work. Dr. P.G. Latha, Director and Dr. E. Santhosh Kumar, JNTBGRI are acknowledged here for the facilities and the identification of plants. Ourteam members, Dr. Jacob Thomas, Dr. P.P. Rajesh Kumar, Messrs. S.S. Shaji, P.J. Robin and Jayakumar are remembered here.Author Details: Dr. V.B. Hoagoudar is a Senior Scientist in JNTBGRI, has been working on foliicolous fungi since 1974, published 16 books and more than 400research papers mostly on foliicolous fungi; proposed three new families, 17 genera and more than 800 species and infra specific taxa.Dr. M.C. Riju is working both on mycorrhizal and foliicolous fungi since 2004, has published a book on mycorrhizal fungi and credited with more than 25 researchpapers appeared in the national and international reputes.The publication of this article is supported by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), a joint initiative of l’Agence Française de Développement, ConservationInternational, the European Commission, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank.Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 05 March 2013 | 5(3): 3701–37883705