Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
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Scientific Name: | Cercospora averrhoae | |||
Author: | Cercospora averrhoae Petch, Ann. Roy Bot. Gard., Peradeniya 6: 249. 1917. |
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Description: | Leaf spots circular, 1-4 mm in diameter, white center and dark purple to brown margin. Fruiting plainly amphigenous, visible with the naked eyes. Stromata lacking or a few brown cells. Conidiophores 2-8 in a spreading fascicle, pale to very pale olivaceous brown, paler and narrower towards the apex, septate, not branched, geniculate, subtruncate at the apex, 30-140 × 4-6.5 μm; conidial scars thickened conspicuously. Conidia hyaline, acicular to obclavate, straight to mildly curved, indistinctly multiseptate, acute at the apex, truncate at the base with a thickened hilum, 25-150 × 3.5-7 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Changhua Hsien, Hsitow, 7 March, 1986, NCHUPP-215. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Averrhoa carambola L. | |||
Distribution: | Mainland China, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan. |
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References: | Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1987. |
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Provided: | W. H. Hsieh |
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Note: | null | |||