 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Dothideomycetes >> Order： Dothideomycetes |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Cercospora apii | |||
| Author： |
Cercospora apii Fresenius. Beitrage zur Mycol. Drittes Heft. 3:91-93 1863. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots orbicular to irregular, sometimes vein-limited, 2-6 mm wide, later coalescing to form larger blotches, pale brown to fairly dark in colour, often with darker margin. Fruiting amphigenous, but more abundant on the lower surface. Stromata lacking or a few brown cells. Conidiophores 2-30 in a fascicle, pale to medium dark olivaceous brown, variable in length, rarely branched, geniculate, multiseptate, 20-300 × 4-6.5 μm; conidial scars conspicuously thickened. Conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to strongly curved, rather closely septate, acute or subacute at the apex, truncate at the base with a thickened hilum, 25-300 × 3-6 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Yunlin Hsien, Huwei, 2 Dec. 1986, NCHUPP-194 |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Apium graveolens L. | |||
| Distribution： |
Widely distributed as celery is grown |
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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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