Phylum：Ascomycota　>>　Class： Dothideomycetes　>>　 Order： Dothideomycetes 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Cercospora plumbaginea
 
   
   
　Author：

Cercospora plumbaginea Saccardo. Atti R. 1st. Ven. Sci. lett. ed arti 61:723 1902.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Leaf spots circular to oval, 2-4 mm. in diameter, visible as concentric zones resembling a frog eye, grey brown and dingy at center and surrounded by a pale tan halo, then bordered by a narrow raised dark brown line. Fruiting amphigenous. Secondary mycelium absent. Stromata small, brown, irregular, may up to 40 μm wide. Conidiophores 2-12 in a spreading fascicle, pale olivaceous to pale brown, paler and narrower towards the apex, sometimes almost hyaline at the tip. sparingly septate, not branched, plainly geniculate with thickened cicatrices on the shoulders and at the subtruncate tip, 10-70 × 4-6 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular to obclavate, subcylindrical for the short ones, straight to mildly curved, indistinctly multiseptate, tip subobtuse, base truncate to obconically truncate with a thickened hilum, 20-100 × 3-4 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Wushe, 8 Sept. 1984, NCHUPP-116.
 
 
 
　Habitat： On leaves and stems of Limonium sinuatum (L.) Mill.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Italy, Palestine, Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990..
   
   
   
　Provided：

W. H. Hsieh
 
 
　Note： This fungus produces a yellowish pigment in PDA medium, but sporulation in culture is poor.