This paper gives an account of distribution, host range and economic importance of the species
Alternaria tenuis Auct, as it occurs in Bombay-Maharashtra (India). The species has been collected on 51 hosts distributed among 23 host families of which 5 are new host records not previously reported in literature.
Part of the author's Ph. D. (Agri.) thesis approved by the University of Poona, Poona (India), 1964.
Junior Research Fellow of the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, (India) in Mycology and Plant Pathology.