In: Sydowia 74, (2021): 79-91; ISSN 0082-0598, DOI 10.12905/0380.sydowia74-2021-0079, Published online on December 10, 2021

Pseudocercospora cappadocici, a new Stigmina-like Pseudocercospora species on Acer cappadocicum from India

Sanjeet Kumar Verma, Sanjay Yadav, Gargee Singh & Raghvendra Singh,*

1 Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221005, India 2 Department of Botany, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh 273009, India
* e-mails: drsinghtaxon@gmail.com, singhr.bot@bhu.ac.in

Verma S.K., Yadav S., Singh G. & Singh R. (2021) Pseudocercospora cappadocici, a new Stigmina-like Pseudocercospora species on Acer cappadocicum from India. – Sydowia 74: 79–91.

Pseudocercospora cappadocici, a new anamorphic foliicolous hyphomycetous fungus discovered on living leaves of Acer cappadocicum (Sapindaceae) is taxonomically described and illustrated. This species is compared with closely related species of
Pseudocercospora and other dematiaceous cercosporoid forms reported on the same host genus. The phylogeny of this species has
been inferred from ITS and LSU sequence data.

Keywords: anamorph, plant disease, phylogeny, taxonomic novelty. – 1 new species