Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >> Order: Dothideomycetes | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Cercospora fagopyri | |||
Author: | Cercospora fagopyri Nakata & Takimoto. Jour. Agric. Sta. Gov't. Gen. Chosen 15:29 1928. |
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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 |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Fagopyrum tataricum Gaertn. | |||
Distribution: | Mainland China, Japan, Taiwan, Uganda, Venezuela. |
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References: | Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. |
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Provided: | W. H. Hsieh |
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Note: | null | |||