Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Passalora fusimaculans
 
   
   
 Author:

Passalora fusimaculans (G.F. Atk.) U. Braun & Crous, Mycosphaerella and its anamorphs: 1. Names published in Cercospora and Passalora: 192, 2003.

Basionym: Cercospora fusimaculans Atkinson, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 8:50 1982.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots oval to elliptical or irregular in outline, 0.5-2 mm in length or confluent up to 10 mm long, pale tan to dingy grey center with a reddish brown margin, or whole spot uniformly brown. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata lacking or small, brown, filling stomatal openings. Conidiophores 2-12 in a fascicle, very pale olivaceous brown to pale brown, not branched, straight or 0-2 geniculate, 0-2 septate, fairly uniform in color and width, conic at the apex, 20-55 × 3-4 μm, conidial scars small in sized but conspicuously thickened. Conidia cylindric, or rarely acicular to obclavate, hyaline, subacute to obtuse at the apex, obconic or rounded at the base, scars plainly visible at both ends when catenulate, straight to mildly curved, indistinctly 1-8 septate, 20-200 × 2.5-3 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung, NCHU Campus, 30 July, 1984, NCHUPP-21, on leaves of Brachiaria subquadripara (Trin.) Hitche.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Brachiaria serrata Stapf., B. slibquadripara Hitche. Echinochloa crusgalli (L.) Beauv., Ichtianthus sp. Leptoloma cognatum (Schult.) Chase, Opiismeaus undulatifolius (Arduino) Room. & Schult., Panicum spp.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Alabama to Wisconsin and eastward, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Canal zone, Colombia, Minas Geraes, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Japan, India, South Africa, Taiwan,"

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. Sawada, K. 1931.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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