New records and data on rust fungi (Pucciniales, Basidiomycota) in Benin Author Tabe, Affoussatou Author Aime, M. Catherine Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA Author Yorou, Nourou Soulemane Author Piepenbring, Meike Mycology Working Group, Institute of Ecology, Evolution, and Diversity, Faculty of Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Biologicum, Max-von-Laue-Str. 13, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany text Phytotaxa 2022 2022-05-31 548 2 127 145 journal article 226877 10.11646/phytotaxa.548.2.1 6fc2b600-368f-47ec-a177-d95aa703f288 1179-3163 6597593 Neoolivea tectonae (Racib.) Aime & McTaggart , Fungal Syst. Evol. 7: 40 (2020) ≡ Olivea tectonae (Racib.) Thirum., Curr. Sci. 18: 176. 1949 . = Olivea tectonae (T.S. Ramakr. & K. Ramakr.) R.L. Mulder , in Mulder and Gibson, C.M.I. Descr. Pathog. Fungi Bact. 365: 1. 1973. Chaconia tectonae T.S. Ramakr. & K. Ramakr., Indian Phytopathol. 2: 19. 1949 , nom. cons. prop. (For further synonyms see Aime & McTaggert 2020.) FIGURE 3. Neoolivea tectonae on Tectona grandis (TA404). A Hypophyllous uredinia B urediniospores drawn in surface view or in optical section C apical parts of paraphyses. Scale bars: 10 µm. Uredinia hypophyllous, subepidermal, erumpent, powdery, paraphysate, associated with orange to dark brown chlorotic spots on the upper side of the leaves. Urediniospores subglobose to broadly ellipsoidal, occasionally globose, (19–)20–24(–30) × 17–19(–21) µm (n = 90), mostly hyaline, yellow-orange, walls echinulate or covered by granular ornamentation, 1.5–2 µm thick, germ pores not seen. Paraphyses cylindrical and more or less irregularly curved, 20–42 × 8–12 µm, wall up to 4 µm thick, up to 5 µm thick at the apex, hyaline, smooth. Telia not observed. Several attempts to isolate 28S and ITS rDNA sequences from the specimens of N. tectonae from Benin were unsuccessful. Specimens examined: — Uredinia on Tectona grandis : BENIN . Zou : Zogbodomey , Lama forest , elev. 47 m , 7°03’ N , 2°10’ E , 11 August 2017 , A . Tabé , M . Piepenbring , and participants of Summer School 2017, TA404 ( UNIPAR ); Borgou : Parakou , Nima , elev. 363 m , 9°21’ N , 2°38’ E , 22 November 2017 , A . Tabé , TA412 ( UNIPAR ) . Host and distribution in Benin : —Uredinia on Tectona grandis (Lamiacae) , Central and Southern Benin. Host species:—Primary host species: Tectona grandis , Tectona spp. ; Lamiaceae ( Yun 2020 ) . Secondary host species: not known. Distribution: —Africa [ Ivory Coast ( Koffi et al. 2018 ), Benin (this study)], Asia, Central America, Oceania, Southern America, Caribbean (Farr & Rossman 2020). Comments: — Neoolivea tectonae is reported for the first time for Benin and for the second time for Africa. The morphological characteristics observed for specimens from Benin are identical with those reported for N. tectonae from other countries (e.g. Daly et al . 2006 , Cabral et al . 2010 ).