Neoolivea tectonae (Racib.) Aime & McTaggart, 2020

Tabe, Affoussatou, Aime, M. Catherine, Yorou, Nourou Soulemane & Piepenbring, Meike, 2022, New records and data on rust fungi (Pucciniales, Basidiomycota) in Benin, Phytotaxa 548 (2), pp. 127-145 : 131-132

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.548.2.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6599887
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scientific name	Neoolivea tectonae (Racib.) Aime & McTaggart
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Neoolivea tectonae (Racib.) Aime & McTaggart View in CoL , Fungal Syst. Evol. 7: 40 (2020)

≡ Olivea tectonae (Racib.) Thirum., Curr. Sci. View in CoL 18: 176. 1949.

= Olivea tectonae (T.S. Ramakr. & K. Ramakr.) R.L. Mulder View in CoL , in Mulder and Gibson, C.M.I. Descr. Pathog. Fungi Bact. 365: 1. 1973. Chaconia tectonae T.S. Ramakr. & K. Ramakr., Indian Phytopathol. View in CoL 2: 19. 1949, nom. cons. prop.

(For further synonyms see Aime & McTaggert 2020.)

Uredinia hypophyllous, subepidermal, erumpent, powdery, paraphysate, associated with orange to dark brown chlorotic spots on the upper side of the leaves. Urediniospores subglobose to broadly ellipsoidal, occasionally globose, (19–)20–24(–30) × 17–19(–21) µm (n = 90), mostly hyaline, yellow-orange, walls echinulate or covered by granular ornamentation, 1.5–2 µm thick, germ pores not seen. Paraphyses cylindrical and more or less irregularly curved, 20–42 × 8–12 µm, wall up to 4 µm thick, up to 5 µm thick at the apex, hyaline, smooth. Telia not observed.

Several attempts to isolate 28S and ITS rDNA sequences from the specimens of N. tectonae from Benin were unsuccessful.

Specimens examined: — Uredinia on Tectona grandis : BENIN. Zou: Zogbodomey, Lama forest , elev. 47 m, 7°03’ N, 2°10’ E, 11 August 2017, A GoogleMaps . Tabé, M . Piepenbring, and participants of Summer School 2017, TA404 ( UNIPAR); Borgou: Parakou, Nima , elev. 363 m, 9°21’ N, 2°38’ E, 22 November 2017, A GoogleMaps . Tabé, TA412 ( UNIPAR) .

Host and distribution in Benin: —Uredinia on Tectona grandis (Lamiacae) , Central and Southern Benin.

Host species:—Primary host species: Tectona grandis , Tectona spp. ; Lamiaceae ( Yun 2020) . Secondary host species: not known.

Distribution: —Africa [ Ivory Coast ( Koffi et al. 2018), Benin (this study)], Asia, Central America, Oceania, Southern America, Caribbean (Farr & Rossman 2020).

Comments: — Neoolivea tectonae is reported for the first time for Benin and for the second time for Africa. The morphological characteristics observed for specimens from Benin are identical with those reported for N. tectonae from other countries (e.g. Daly et al. 2006, Cabral et al. 2010).