© 2014-15| All right reserved 24 Int. Res. J. of Science & Engineering, 2015; Vol. 3 (1): 24-27 ISSN: 2322-0015 Fungus Botryodiplodia deccanii form Mohgaonkalan Cherts, M.P., India Puranik SD Department of Botany, Shri Shivaji Science college, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. Email: sumedhadpuranik@gmail.com Manuscript Details ABSTRACT Received : 18.12.2014 Revised : 05.01.2015 Revised Received :15.01.2015 Accepted : 18.01.2015 Published: 25.01.2015 ISSN: 2322-0015 Cite this article as: Puranik SD. Fungus Botryodiplodia deccanii form Mohgaonkalan Cherts, M.P., India, Int. Res. J. of Sci. & Engg., 2015; 3(1):24-27. Copyright: © Author(s), This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non- commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. Present paper deals with fungi imperfecti from Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaonkalan Cherts. Here Pycnidia black coloured and compact, round halfmoon or semicircular in shape. Semicircular pycnidia open to exterior by ostiole and hyphae branchedseparte and multicelluler forming pseudoparenchymatous funagal tissue, conidiophores branches, conidia bicelled, dark coloured, elongated to ovoid Keywords: Hyphea, Pycnidia, Imperfecti. INTRODUCTION The fossil fungi imperfecti from the Deccan intertrappean beds of Mohgaonkalan. Mahabale (1969) has recorded Diplodia rodei. Four different fossil pycnidia namely Palaephoma intertrappea, Mohgaonidium deccani, Mohgaonidi deccani, Diplodia sahnii and Deccanodia eocenum have been reported by Singhai (1974). Above pycnidia are from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaonkalan in M.P. Singh and Patil (1978) reported the pycnidia Palaeocylosphaera intertrappea, Rabenharstinidium intertrappeum, Hendersonula mohgaoense, Sarcophoma deccani belonging to Coelomycetes. Barlinge and Paradkar (1979) reported the Deuteromycetous pycnidia Botryodiplodia mohgaoensis and Ascochytiles intertrappea from the same beds of Mohgaonkalan. Dixit (1984) has reported same type of fructifications from the same beds. Chawhan (1987) described three different fungal pycnidia of fungi imperfecti from Nagpur. They are Palaeosclerotipsis intertrappea, Phutalites deccani and Astermellites deccani. Here a pychidium showing affinities to form order Sphaeropsidales of fungi imperfecti is described. OPEN ACCESS RESEARCH ARTICLE