 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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| Scientific Name： |
Pseudocercospora colocasiae | |||
| Author： |
Pseudocercospora colocasiae Deighton, Mycol. Pap. 140: 17. 1976. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots irregularly angular, vein-limited but without definite margin, confluent and up to 10 mm wide, yellowish brown to grey on the upper surface with indefinite yellowish bordering zone, sooty on the corresponding lower surface. Fruiting amphigenous, very much more abundant on the lower surface. Stromata absent. Conidiophores up to 15 or more in a fascicle, moderately dark olivaceous, slightly paler at the apex, guttulate at some cells near the apex, mostly straight, sometimes slightly geniculate, not branched, rounded at the apex or tapered to a broad truncate unthickened conidial scar, 3-15 septate, 50-250 × 4-7 μm. Conidia shortly clavate or turbinate, with a broadly rounded apex, pale olivaceous, guttulate, nearly all 3-septate, sometimes I- or 2- septate, very rarely 5-septate or with a longitudinal septum, usually slightly constricted, 20-45 × 7-11 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Hsitou, 29 Dec. 1987, NCHUPP-245. |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott | |||
| Distribution： |
Bangladesh, Br. Solomon, Burma, Honiara, West Irian, Western Samoa, 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： |
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