Two Novel Additions to Meliola Fr. and Some Additional Records of Foliicolous Fungi from Mahabaleshwar

During 2008, in Mahabaleshwar Distt. Satara, a survey was corducted for foliicolous fungi and collected eleven host plants being parasitized with nine fungi from Wilson point area of Mahabaleshwar. Adina cardifolia Hook. (Rubiaceae) was found infected with Cercospora adinina where as Albizzia procera L. Benth. (Mimosaceae) with Cercospora albiziae; Albizzia sp. with Pseudocercospora sp.; Flacourtia indica Merrill (Flacourtaceae) with Meliola sp. Fr.; Gardenia gummifera Linn. (Rubiaceae) with Stenella sp.; Polygonum chinensis Willd (Polygonaceae) with Asterina sp.; Polygonum sp. Willd with Cercospora poligoni and Pseudocercospora poligoni; Syzygium heaneana Wall ex Duthie (Myrtaceae) with Asterina and Syzygium sp. Linn. with Alternaria and Meliola sp. All the fungal taxon were indentified after making microscopic preparations It revealed that all the hosts and their parasites were new records either from Mahabaleshwar and Maharashtra.