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

Cercospora stachytarphetae Ellis & Everhart. Missouri Bot. Card. Ann. Rept. 9:120 1898.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots circular to angular, 1-4 mm in diameter, grey with a raised brown line margin. Fruiting chiefly hypophyllous. Stromata lacking or a few dark brown cells. Conidiophores 1-10 in a fascicle, emerging through the stomata, pale to medium dark brown, uniform in color or paler at the apex, branching absent, septate, longer ones undulate, geniculate, 40-180 × 4.5-7 μm; conidial scars conspicuously thickened. Conidia acicular, hyaline, straight to mildly curved, indistinctly multiseptate, acute at the apex, truncate to short obconically truncate at the base, 20-150 × 3.5-6 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Hsitou, 1 Jan. 1985, NCHUPP-151a

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Stachytarphcta jamaiccasis (L.) Vahl.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Barbados, Bermuda, Florida, Nassau, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Tobago, Venezuela.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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