Blastospora in the Americas: a new combination and anamorphic genus and species

Abstract

This paper presents the new teleomorphic combination Blastospora colombiana as well as a description of a new anamorph genus Pelastoma with two species, all on Apocynaceae from Central and South America.

• Neotropical rusts
• rust fungi
• suprastomatal sori

Acknowledgments

We thank the curators of B, BPI, BRIT, HBG, IBI, IMI, P, PUR, RB and Buriticá Herbarium for access to collections and libraries while on visits, for the loan of specimens and for bibliographic information.

Financial aid for some of the work came from the National Science Foundation (NSF-USA), United States Departament of Agriculture (USDA-USA), Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP- São Paulo, Brazil), Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa Científica e Tecnológica (CNPq-Brazil).

In addition our institutions, including Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín, Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro (JBRJ), Purdue University’s Arthur Herbarium (PUR) and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), have made it possible to continue this research. We thank to Dr Jorge Fontella Pereira by correcting the Latin diagnosis.