On a fossil species of Diplodia from the Deccan Intertrappean Series, M.P., India

Abstract

Some well-preserved two-celled, purple spores of a fossil fungus were found in group in the decaying tissues of leaf and bits of other parts in an intertrappean chert collected at Mohgaon Kalan (Dist. Chhindwara, M.P., Horizon-Tertiary, Age Eocene). They were 17.5-18 µ x 7.5 µ and seemed to have come out from a pycnidium. They were borne terminally, singly, on septate mycelium. Comparing their characters, double nature, size and colour, so very well preserved in the chert, they seem to have belonged to the genus Diplodia and are named as Diplodia rodei n. sp. after Professor K. P. Rode of the University of Udaipur*.
 Some well-preserved two-celled, purple spores of a fossil fungus were found in group in the decaying tissues of leaf and bits of other parts in an intertrappean chert collected at Mohgaon Kalan (Dist. Chhindwara, M.P., Horizon-Tertiary, Age Eocene). They were 17.5-18 µ x 7.5 µ and seemed to have come out from a pycnidium. They were borne terminally, singly, on septate mycelium. Comparing their characters, double nature, size and colour, so very well preserved in the chert, they seem to have belonged to the genus Diplodia and are named as Diplodia rodei n. sp. after Professor K. P. Rode of the University of Udaipur*.
 Some well-preserved two-celled, purple spores of a fossil fungus were found in group in the decaying tissues of leaf and bits of other parts in an intertrappean chert collected at Mohgaon Kalan (Dist. Chhindwara, M.P., Horizon-Tertiary, Age Eocene). They were 17.5-18 µ x 7.5 µ and seemed to have come out from a pycnidium. They were borne terminally, singly, on septate mycelium. Comparing their characters, double nature, size and colour, so very well preserved in the chert, they seem to have belonged to the genus Diplodia and are named as Diplodia rodei n. sp. after Professor K. P. Rode of the University of Udaipur*.
 Some well-preserved two-celled, purple spores of a fossil fungus were found in group in the decaying tissues of leaf and bits of other parts in an intertrappean chert collected at Mohgaon Kalan (Dist. Chhindwara, M.P., Horizon-Tertiary, Age Eocene). They were 17.5-18 µ x 7.5 µ and seemed to have come out from a pycnidium. They were borne terminally, singly, on septate mycelium. Comparing their characters, double nature, size and colour, so very well preserved in the chert, they seem to have belonged to the genus Diplodia and are named as Diplodia rodei n. sp. after Professor K. P. Rode of the University of Udaipur*.