New species of Septoria from Iran

Subject Areas : Plant Pests

Hossain Azimi ¹ , Lilon Osipyan ² , Alireza Javadi Estahbanati ³ , Sepideh Sajedi ⁴

1 - Scientific staff, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran, Iran and Former PhD. Student at Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
2 - Professor at Yerevan State University and a Member of National Science Academia of Armenia
3 - Scientific staff, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran, Iran
4 - Scientific staff, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2015-08-17 Accepted : 2015-12-19 Published : 2015-11-22

Keywords: Taxonomy, Biodiversity, Morphology, Anamorphic fungi,

Abstract :

In the framework of study on the genus Septoria in Iran, several newly collected and herbarium specimens from Fungal Reference Collection of the Ministry of Agriculture-Jahad (IRAN) located at the Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, were studied. Among identified samples, five species viz. Septoria sambuci-ebuli sp. nov. on Sambucus ebulus L., Septoria fatehii sp. nov. on Alhagi sp., Septoriakhalkhalensis sp. nov. on Astragalus sp., Septoria javadii sp. nov. on Rubia sp. and Septoria osipyaniae sp. nov. on Populus sp. are newly described in this paper.