Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Cercospora fagopyri
 
   
   
 Author:

Cercospora fagopyri Nakata & Takimoto. Jour. Agric. Sta. Gov't. Gen. Chosen 15:29 1928.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots orbicular to elliptical, 2-10 mm wide, at first reddish brown, then grayish at center, slightly zonate. Fruiting amphigenous, when abundant appearing as a dark effuse layer. Stromata lacking or only a few brown cells. Conidiophores borne singly or 2-12 in a fascicle, pale to medium olivaceous brown, cylindric, straight to slightly curved, 0-1 septate, 0-2 geniculate, not branched, truncate at the apex with thickened conidial scars, 25-70 × 4-6 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to slightly curved, indistinctly multiseptate, subacute at the apex, truncate at the base, 45-100 × 3-5 μm, hilum thickened.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 26 Oct. 1909, Herb. NTU-PPE

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Fagopyrum tataricum Gaertn.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Mainland China, Japan, Taiwan, Uganda, Venezuela.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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