Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Cercospora papayae | |||
Author: | Cercospora papayae Hansford, Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1942-43: 58. 1943. |
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Description: | Leaf spots suborbicular to irregular, 3-8 mm wide, pale yellowish brown, with a darker, slightly raised margin. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata lacking or just a few brown cells. Conidiophores 3-30 in a fascicle, pale olivaceous brown to medium brown, paler at the apex, irregular in width, multiseptate, not branched, 0-4 geniculate, 50-130 × 3-5 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular, shorter ones may be cylindric, straight to curved, indistinctly multiseptate, subacute to subobtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, 30-130 × 3-5 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taichung, 6 May, 1968, NCHUPP-01.255. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Carica papaya L. | |||
Distribution: | Brazil, India, Mainland China, Malawi, Mauritius, Nepal, New Guinea, Sey-chelles, Sudan, Taiwan, Tonga, Uganda, Venezuela. |
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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 | |||