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REASSESSMENT OF SPHAEROPSIS UNDULATA BERK. & CURT.

 SYED QAISER ABBAS, B.C. SUTTON^*, A.GHAFFAR^** AND ALIA ABBAS

Abstract: During an examination of the type specimen of Sphaeropsis undulata Berk. & Curt., No. 560 at the Mycological Herbarium, Kew Garden, it was found that S. undulata Berk. & Curt., actually belongs to Lasiodiplodia Ell. & Everh. The strait nature of conidia is diagnostic and this name precedes Botryodiplodia theobromae (Pat.) Griff & Maubl. Therefore a new combination Lasiodiplodia undulata (Berk. & Curt.) Abbas, Sutton, Ghaffar & Abbas is proposed. Specimen No. 30, on dead bark recorded by Berkeley & Broome (1873) as Sphaeropsis undulata Berk. & Curt., belongs to Phaeodomus, therefore a new species Phaeodomus berkeley Abbas, Sutton, Ghaffar & Abbas sp. nov., is proposed. Specimen No. 648 belongs to Cytosphaera since type studies of Haplosporella maniliensis Sacc., H. syconophila Sacc., Dothiorella stratosa Sacc., Sphaeropsis undulata Berk. & Curt., No. 648 studied by Berk. & Broom from Ceylon, Cytosphaera eucalyptii Sharma and description of H. cesatii Sacc., shows that these taxa are conspecific with Cytosphaera mangifera. Therefore earliest epithet is taken up and a new combination Cytosphaera cesatii is proposed.
  

Department of Botany, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences & Technology, Gulshan-e-Iqbal Campus, University Road, Karachi, Pakistan.