NEW RECORDS OF MUCORALES FROM IRAN

Abstract

Some 340 isolates belonging to Mucorales, obtained from rhizosphere of root knot nematode host plants in ChaharMahal & BakhtiariProvince, were studied during 2003-5. Fourteen new taxa, namely, Absidia spinosa, Actinomucor elegans, Cunninghamella echinulata var. echinulata, C. echinulata var. nodosa, C. echinulata var. verticillata, Mucor circinelloides f. circinelloides, M. circinelloides f. lusitanicus, M. hiemalis f. luteus, M. inaequisporus, M. plumbeus, M. racemosus f. racemosus, M. ramosissimus, M. variosporus and Zygorhynchus heterogamus are recorded from Iran.