Comparative Morphology and Taxonomy of the Genus Chaetomium Kunze and its Species

摘要

Forty-nine isolates of Chaetomium species deposited in Indian Type Culture Collection (ITCC) and Herbarium Cryptogamae Indiae Orientalis (HCIO) in the Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi were reexamined for taxonomic revision. Based on the observations of morphological characters, 12 valid species of the genus Chaetomium were described and the taxonomic keys with illustrations for their identification have been provided.