Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >> Order: Dothideomycetes | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Cercospora melongenae | |||
Author: | Cercospora melongenae Welles. Phytopathology 123:63 1922. |
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Description: | Leaf spots orbicular to irregular, 4-10 mm wide, brown to grayish brown on the upper surface, dull brown on the lower surface. Fruiting amphigenous but more abundant on lower surface. Stromata lacking or just a few dark brown cells. Conidiophores 3-12 in a fascicle, pale to medium brown, paler towards the apex, sparingly septate, not branched, 0-1 geniculate, truncate at the apex, 20-150 × 4-6.5 μm; conidial scars conspicuously thickened. Conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to mildly curved, indistinctly multiseptate, subacute to subobtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, 40-120 × 3-5 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taipei, 18 Aug. 1929, Herb. NTU-PPE |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Solanum melongena L | |||
Distribution: | Fiji, India, Jamaica, Malawi, Mainland China, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Sudan, Taiwan, Trinidad, U.S.A. Zambia. |
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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 | |||