Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Cercospora arcti-ambrosia
 
   
   
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Cercospora arcti-ambrosia Halsted, Description on pocket, Sey. + Earle, Economic Fungi 296 and 297a. 1893.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots suborbicular to irregular, 1-10 mm wide, brown to dark brown, becoming grey to white at the center, confluent. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata lacking or small. Conidiophores up to 15 in a fascicle, pale to gcniculale, not branched, truncate at the apex with thickened conidial scars, 25-200 × 4-6 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to variously curved, multiseptate, acute to obtuse at the apex, truncate at the base with a thickened hilum, 25-200 × 3- 4.5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 18 April, 1931, Herb. NTU-PPE

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Arctium lappa L.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan, U.S.A.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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