 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Cercospora alocasiae | |||
| Author： |
Cercospora alocasiae [Sawada ex] Goh & Hsieh, Trans. mycol. Soc. R.O.C. 2: 86-87. 1987. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots indistinct or distinct, later dingy grey to pale tan, circular or forming concentric rings, 10-20 mm wide. Fruiting amphigenous, dark, effuse. Stromata none or several dark brown cells. Conidiophores meagre or dense in a divergent fascicle (up to 55 or more stalks), brown, uniform in colour, paler at the apex, geniculate near the apex with conspicuously thickened scars, not branched, plainly multiseptate, uniform in width, 50-200 × 4-5.5 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular or sometimes obdavate, shorter ones cylindric, straight to curved, closely multiseptate, tip acute or subobtuse, base truncate, 30-200 × 2-4 μm; hilum conspicuously thickened. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei, 19 Dec. 1920, Herb. NTU-PPE. |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Alocasia macrorrhiza (L.) Schott & Endl. | |||
| Distribution： |
Japan, Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Sawada, K. 1943a. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
A portion of the Sawada's collection is deposited in the U.S.D.A. Mycological Her-barium. | |||