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Foliicolous fungi of Silent ValleyHosagoudar & Rijucab10µmFigure 119. Teratosperma anacardiia - Foot cell; b - Conidiophore; c- ConidiaPodoconis anacardii (Hansf.) Hughes, Mycol. Pap. 48:65, 1952 (Fig. 119).Colonies epiphyllous, thin to dense, up to 1mm indiameter, rarely confluent. Hyphae mostly straight, palebrown, branching irregular at acute to wide angles, looselyreticulate, cells 1–3 μm broad. Conidiophores borne onfoot cells. Foot cells sessile to stipitate, borne laterally tothe hyphae, enlarged apically with irregularly producedspinules, 7–10x4–9 μm. Conidiophores produced on thefoot cells, macronematous, mononematous, erect, darkbrown, septate, simple, straight, smooth, 50–73x2–4μm. Conidiogenous cells pale brown, monoblastic,integrated, terminal, percurrent, annellated. Conidiasolitary, dry, acrogenous, obclavate, rostrate, mostly2-septate, constricted at the septa, 10–21μm long,truncate at the base, 1–2 appendaged on the basal cell,4–5 μm broad at the broadest part, apical cell pale andbroadly round at the tip, up to 2μm broad.Materials examined: 14.xii.2003 on leaves ofMyristica beddomei King. (Myristicaceae), Champatty,Silent Valley, Kerala, V.B. Hosagoudar et al. HCIO 45769,TBGT 1518.The genus SpiropesSpiropes armatellicola Hosag. & D.K. Agarwal, J:Econ. Taxon. Bot. 26: 603, 2002 (Fig. 120).Colonies mostly epiphyllous, dense. up to 5mm indiameter, confluent. Hyphae superficial, pale brown,branched, surrounded around appressoria and myceliumof the host, 1–2 µm broad. Conidiophores solitary,simple, mononematous, erect, straight to flexuous,paler towards the apex, conidial scars scattered, 60–112x 4–7 µm. Conidiogenous cells polyblastic, integrated,terminal and intercalary, conspicuous. Conidia straight toa6.6µmFigure 120. Spiropes armatellicolaa - Conidiophores; b - Conidiaslightly curved, obclavate, rostrate at the apex, truncateat the base, pale brown, uniseptate, rostrate above theseptum, ovate below the septum, slightly hinged at thebase, 24–29 µm long, 6–8 µm broad at the broadestportion, up to 3µm broad at the base, beak 8–16 µmlong and up to 1.5µm broad at the tip.Materials examined: 12.xii.2003 on the colonies ofArmatella cryptocaryae Hosag. on leaves of Litsea sp.(Lauraceae), Sairandhri, Silent Valley, V.B. Hosagoudar etal. HCIO 46327, TBGT 1973.Spiropes japonicus (P. Henn.) M.B. Ellis, Mycol. Pap.114: 22, 1968; Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes p. 256,1971; Katumoto, Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan 24: 251, 1983;Hosag., Abraham, and Biju, C.K. New Botanist 23: 213,1996 (Fig. 121).Colonies amphigenous, dense, velvety, up to 3mm indiam., confluent. Conidiophores synnematous, compact,erect, cylindrical, 245–520x19–30 μm; conidiophoresspread out in the apical and upper half of the synnemata,brown to dark brown, paler towards the apex, septate,smooth, 3v4 μm wide; Conidiogenous cells polyblastic,terminal and intercalary, sympodial cylindrical cicatrized,scars numerous and conspicuous; conidia solitary, dry,acropleurogenous, simple, fusiform to obclavate, paleb3774Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 05 March 2013 | 5(3): 3701–3788