FujiwARA : A New Root Rot Disease oi'- Boehmcria nivea Bl. ^5^ 



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Ramularla (Unger) Fries. 

 "Differs from Fusariuni mainly by nearly cylindrical apedicellate conidia, 

 with rounded apex; plectenchymic stromataflat to well-developed, wartlike, short 

 column-like structures typically present ; conidia borne on conidiophores on aerial 

 mycelium, or on plectenchymic substratum; microconidia absent." 



Raimilaria Boehmeriae sp. nov. 

 Conidia cylindrical, with both ends rounded, not papillate, mostly i -septate, 

 o — to 2-septate conidia also found, 3-septate very rarely, 23.4 x 3.6 (18 — 25 x 3.6 

 --4.8)/^; chlamydospores intercalary, 8.1 — 14.4x7.2 — 10.8//; color of spore 

 masses,brownish ; color of plectenchyma, yellowish to light brown. 



Hab. On roots and subterranean stems of Bochineria nivea Bl. In Yama- 

 gata and Fukushima Prefectures, Japan, 



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