Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
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Scientific Name: | Cercospora erechtitis | |||
Author: | Cercospora erechtitis Atkinson, Jour. Elisha Mitch. Sci. Soc. 8: 66. 1892. |
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Description: | Leaf spots circular to suborbicular, scattered, grayish brown, with dark brown margin, 2-5 mm in diameter. Fruiting amphigenous, but chiefly on the upper surface. Stromata none or a few brown cells. Conidiophores borne singly or 2-7 in a fascicle, pale to medium brown, plainly multiseptate, not branched, straight to slightly sinuous or 1-7 mildly geniculate, slightly paler at the subtruncate apex, 30-300 × 4-6 μm; conidial scars conspicuously thickened. Conidia acicular to aciculo-obclavate, hyaline, straight or curved, indistinctly multiseptate, acute at the apex, truncate at the base with a thickened hilum, 40-120 × 2-4 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Hualien Hsien, 1 Feb. 1985, NCHUPP-131a, 1985. Hualien Hsien, Juisui, 22 March 1944, Herb. NTU-PPE. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Erechtites valerianaefolia (Wolf) DC. | |||
Distribution: | North and South America, Colombia, West Indies, Taiwan. |
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References: | Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. |
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Provided: | W. H. Hsieh |
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Note: | null | |||