 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Pseudocercospora petila | |||
| Author： |
Pseudocercospora petila Goh & Hsieh, Cercospora and similar fungi from Taiwan. Maw Chang Book Company, Taipei, Taiwan: 127-128. 1990. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots suborbicular to irregular, 1-10 mm wide, grayish brown, confluent to form larger spots, often occurring at the leaf margins. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata subglobular, dark brown, 20-70 μm wide. Conidiophores densely fasciculate, pale to very pale olivaceous brown, paler towards the apex, straight to curved or undulate, rarely septate, not branched, not geniculate, conically rounded at the apex , 5-20 × 2-3.5 μm, conidial scars unthickened and inconspicuous. Conidia hyaline, cylindric to narrowly obclavate, straight to curved, in-distinctly septate, conic or blunt at the apex, rounded or subtruncate at the base, 30-50 × 2-3 μm, hilum unthickened and inconspicuous. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taitung Hsien, Chichang, 2 Feb. 1985, NCHUPP-158 |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch. | |||
| Distribution： |
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： |
This fungus and Cercospora petila Thirumalachar & Chupp (Mycologia 40:359, 1948) are possibly synonymous. | |||