Submitted 27 February 2014, Accepted 4 March 2014, Published online 29 August 2014 Corresponding Author: Shambhu Kumar – e-mail – skumartaxon@gmail.com 149 A new species of Corynespora from Sonebhadra forest of Uttar Pradesh, India Singh A 1 , Kumar S 2 , Singh R 3 and Dubey NK 1 1 Center of Advanced Study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi –221 005 (U.P.), India. 2 Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow–226 007(U.P.), India. 3 Department of Botany, H.S. Gaur University, Sagar–470003 (M.P.), India. Singh A, Kumar S, Singh R, Dubey NK 2014 – A new species of Corynespora from Sonebhadra forest of Uttar Pradesh, India. Current Research in Environmental & Applied Mycology 4(2), 149– 151, Doi 10.5943/cream/4/2/1 Abstract Corynespora moracina is described and illustrated on Ficus hispida (Moraceae) collected from forest flora of Sonebhadra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Key words – Fungal diversity – foliar disease – morphotaxonomy – Sonebhadra forest – Corynespora – new species Introduction The genus Corynespora caused foliar disease on angiosperms especially in tropical and subtropical regions. During our survey of the forest region of Sonebhadra of District Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, India many collections showing foliar diseases have been collected. Upon critical morphological examination and comparison with closely related taxa Corynespora moracina on Ficus hispida (Moraceae) appeared as a novel species and is described here. Materials & Methods Surface scrapping and free hand cut sections were made with razor blade of infected leaf samples, collected from forest flora of Sonebhadra of district Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, (24°42' N to 25°3'55' N and 83°3' 24" E to 83°22'55" E). Sections were taken through infection spots and mounted in lactophenol cotton blue for microscopic examination. Detailed observations of morphological characters were carried out using an Olympus CX-31 light microscope (1000×). Measurements were made of 20 conidia and conidiophores. Line drawings were prepared by camera lucida at a magnification of 1000×. Type specimen has been deposited in Herbarium Cryptogamiae Indiae Orientalis (HCIO), Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi and an isotype retained in the departmental herbarium (Banaras Hindu University). Descriptions and nomenclatural details were deposited in MycoBank (www.Mycobank.org). Current Research in Environmental & Applied Mycology 4 (2): 149–151 (2014) ISSN 2229-2225 www.creamjournal.org Article CREAM Copyright © 2014 Online Edition Doi 10.5943/cream/4/2/1