Hosts range of Erysiphales reported from Lorestan province and new findings on hosts of these fungi

Erysiphales Fungi are pathogen of plants with the cosmopolitan distribution and has pathogenic effect on wide range of mono and dichotiledon plants. About 650 species number of Erysiphales have been identified. Each species of these Fungi has different host. But the distribution of its species varies in different regions of the world. In this study, a complete list of Erysipelas fungi that reported in Lorestan province from 1897 to 2018 was prepared and a group of plants infected with these fungi were collected and studied from areas of this province that 8 species of fungi were identified from 8 plant hosts species that there are no reports of any Erysipelas and other fungi in the world on these hosts. As reported of, Leveillula contractirostris on Alcea koelzi, Leveillula papilionacearum on Astragalus brachicalix, Erysiphe buhri on Mesostema kotschyana, Golovinomyces oronti on Crupina crupinastrum, Phyllactinia babayanii on Amygdalus Hausknechti, Erysiphe polygoni on Astragalus iranicus, Erysiphe astragali on Astragalus ovinus and Podosphaera dipsacacearum on Pterocephalus plumosus,are the new reports in the world. These reports add to 85 reported host’s species of Erysipelas from Lorestan province and 552 species reported from Iran and about 10,000 reported hosts in worldwide.