Three new records of plant parasitic phyllosphere fungi from Panama: Annellophora phoenicis, Cercospora corniculatae, and Sclerotium coffeicola

Check List 14(1): 93-100, doi: 10.15560/14.1.93

Three new records of plant parasitic phyllosphere fungi from Panama: Annellophora phoenicis, Cercospora corniculatae, and Sclerotium coffeicola

Roland Kirschner^‡, Orlando Cáceres^§, Meike Piepenbring^|

‡ National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan§ Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, David, Panama| Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Corresponding author: Meike Piepenbring ( piepenbring@bio.uni-frankfurt.de )

Academic editor: Roger Fagner Ribeiro Melo

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Citation: Kirschner R, Cáceres O, Piepenbring M (2018) Three new records of plant parasitic phyllosphere fungi from Panama: Annellophora phoenicis, Cercospora corniculatae, and Sclerotium coffeicola. Check List 14(1): 93-100. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.1.93

Abstract

Three fungi associated with living leaves of plants are new records for Panama: Annellophora phoenicis causing leaf spots of Cocos nucifera (Arecaceae), Cercospora corniculatae (C. apii s. lat.) on living leaves of Oxalis barrelieri (Oxalidaceae) with and without discoloration, and Sclerotium coffeicola on zonate leaf spots of Annona montana (Annonaceae) and Dioscorea alata (Dioscoreaceae). Some records of A. phoenicis and S. coffeicola relevant for known geographical distribution and available by literature are critically revised.

Keywords

Anamorphic fungi; asexual fungi; Ascomycota; Basidiomycota; tropical fungi