Palaeophthora mohgaonensis Singhai - a fossil fungus from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaonkalan, Chhindwara District, M.P., India

L.C. Singhai

doi:10.54991/jop.1976.1035

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L.C. Singhai Assistant Professor of Botany, Government Degree College, Jagdalpur-494005, India

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https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1976.1035

Abstract

The petrified fungus Palaeophthora mohgaonensis Singhai (1975) from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of Mohgaonkalan, Chhindwara District. Madhya Pradesh has been described here in detail. The fungus is intracellular and possesses both vegetative and reproductive parts in situ. Mycelium non-septate. branched and coenocytic. Antheridia narrow, tube-like and bent at the tip. Oogonium nearly spherical and possesses a single oosphere. Comparisons have been made both with the living and fossil forms.

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