taxonID	type	description	language	source
CB178783FFD71F3816C3F892FCFC3DF1.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The species epithet refers to the name of Emeritus Prof. Dr. Ravindra G. Bagool in honour of his 80 th Birthday and his 35 year’s contribution to Botany and Mycology.	en	Yadav, Lal Sahab, Sharma, Monica, Cordeiro, Thalline Rafhaella Leite, Santiago, André Luiz Cabral Monteiro De Azevedo, Singh, Paras Nath (2025): Syncephalastrum bagoolii (Syncephalastraceae, Mucorales), a new fungus from India. Phytotaxa 691 (2): 188-200, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.691.2.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.691.2.5
CB178783FFD71F3816C3F892FCFC3DF1.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype: — INDIA. Maharashtra: Smt. C. H. M College, Ulhasnagar Thane, 19 ° 22 ′ 03 ″ N 73 ° 9 ′ 49 ″ E, media contaminant, 25 August 2024, Ms. Monica Sharma & Lal Sahab Yadav (Holotyp e — AMH 10776, ex-type culture NFCCI 5935). GenBank Accession number: ITS = PQ 661356, LSU = PQ 666446. Colonies floccose with dense mycelium, growing rapidly (90 mm diam.) after 5 days at 27 oC on PDA, firstly white and becoming greyish olive at maturity; reverse pale white and zonate. Hyphae branched, regularly septate 7 – 20 µm (x ̄ = 11 µm, n = 25) wide, smooth-walled; stolon septate near the place of origin of merosporangiophores. Rhizoids regularly branched, bulbus lobed, root like. Merosporangiophores hyaline to light brownish, usually curved, circinate, variable in length, short to tall, short 40 – 65 × 3 – 5 µm, tall 115 – 135 × 5.5 – 6 µm, (x ̄ = 89.5 × 5.2 µm, n = 30), simple, monopodially or sympodially branched 3 – 5 times, swollen at the base with 2 – 3 septa, terminating with vesicle; lateral branches simple to monopodially branched (1 – 2 times) curved to circinate 25 – 140 × 2 – 5 µm (x ̄ = 51 × 3.33 µm, n = 50). Axial vesicles globose, 6 – 28 μm (x ̄ = 13.37 μm, n = 75) in diam., rarely sub-globose, ovoid, and papillate, 22 – 32 × 12 – 25 μm (x ̄ = 28.5 × 20, n = 25), wall smooth or rugose with merosporangia formed all over their surface; vesicles of lateral branches globose, 5 – 15 μm diam., wall smooth or rugose. Merosporangia initially obovate to clavate, mature merosporangia elongated, usually with 4 – 9 merospores, up to 15 – 20 μm in length attached on vesicle with a prominent denticle, evanescent-walled. Merospores globose 3 – 4 μm (x ̄ = 3.9 μm, n = 50) diam., subglobose 4 – 6 × 3 – 4 μm (x ̄ = 5.33 × 3.4 μm, n = 30), basal merospores obovate, elongated, toothed, 3 – 9 × 2 – 5 μm (x ̄ = 5.8 × 3.6 μm, n = 75) with dark persistent denticles, after detaching from the vesicles, smooth-walled. Chlamydospores and zygospores not observed. Notes: The morphological comparison with allied taxa showed that Syncephalastrum bagoolii is morphologically distinct from other species of Syncephalastrum (Table 2).	en	Yadav, Lal Sahab, Sharma, Monica, Cordeiro, Thalline Rafhaella Leite, Santiago, André Luiz Cabral Monteiro De Azevedo, Singh, Paras Nath (2025): Syncephalastrum bagoolii (Syncephalastraceae, Mucorales), a new fungus from India. Phytotaxa 691 (2): 188-200, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.691.2.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.691.2.5
CB178783FFD71F3816C3F892FCFC3DF1.taxon	distribution	Distribution: India. Additional specimen examined: INDIA. MAHARASHTRA: Ulhasnagar, Botany Research laboratory Smt. C. H. M. College, Ulhasnagar, Thane 19 ° 22 ′ 03 ″ N 73 ° 9 ′ 49 ″ E contaminant, 10 September 2024, Jitendra Patil and Lal Sahab Yadav (NFCCI 5936, living culture). Media and temperature test: strains NFCCI- 5935 and NFCCI- 5936 showed luxuriant growth at 27 and 35 ° C on both PDA and MEA media with 9 cm diam. growth in five days. However, the sporulation was better at temperature of 35 than at 27 ° C. Growth was very restricted at 40 ° C (1.5 cm in 10 days) with no growth at temperature of 45 ° C. On MEA, colony fast growing, light grey, floccose with sparse mycelium covering entire plate (9 cm diam.) and touching lid of plate after 5 days of incubation at 27 ° C, reverse white.	en	Yadav, Lal Sahab, Sharma, Monica, Cordeiro, Thalline Rafhaella Leite, Santiago, André Luiz Cabral Monteiro De Azevedo, Singh, Paras Nath (2025): Syncephalastrum bagoolii (Syncephalastraceae, Mucorales), a new fungus from India. Phytotaxa 691 (2): 188-200, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.691.2.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.691.2.5
