 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Pseudocercospora punctiformis | |||
| Author： |
Pseudocercospora punctiformis Goh & Hsieh, Cercospora and similar fungi from Taiwan. Maw Chang Book Company, Taiwan, Taipei: 35-36. 1990. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots circular to irregular, 2-6 mm wide, pale tan to dingy grey, often with yellow to brown border. Fruiting amphigenous, visible as minute black pustules on the spots. Secon-dary mycelium absent. Stromata globular, dark brown, 20-75 μm wide. Conidiophores very densely fasciculate, medium olivaceous or pale olivaceous brown, fairly uniform in colour and width, not branched, 0-1 septate, 0-1 geniculate, conically rounded or subtruncate at the apex, 10-40 × 4-5.5 μm; conidial scars unthickened or inconspicuous. Conidia olivaceous, cylindric or cylindro-obclavate, straight to curved, 3-10 septate, subobtuse at the apex, ob-conically truncate at the base, 20-100 × 3-5.5 μm; hilum unthickened. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei, 26 Oct. 1919, NTU-PPE. |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Cynanchum formosanum (Maxim.) Hemsl. ex Forbes & Hemsl. | |||
| Distribution： |
Alabama, Algeria, Italy, Romania, 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 punctiformis Saccardo & Roumeguere (Rev. Mycol. 3:29, 1881) are possibly synonymous. | |||