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

Passalora gonostegiae (Goh & W.H. Hsieh) U. Braun & Crous, Mycosphaerella and its anamorphs: 1. Names published in Cercospora and Passalora: 454 2003.

= Mycovellosiella gonostegiae Goh & Hsieh. Bot. Bull. Acad. Sinica 30(2):121-122 1989.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots suborbicular to irregular, dark brown, without distinct margin but surrounded by an indefinite yellowish halo, 1-9 mm wide. Fruiting hypophyllous. Stroma none. Secondary mycelium external: hyphae sparsely branched, intertwining to form ropes, almost colourless, 1-2 μm wide, becoming pale olivaceous and wider near the bases where the conidiophores are borne. Conidiophores arise laterally and terminally from the external hyphae, very pale olivaceous brown, tip paler or almost colourless, irregular in width, 1-5 septate, slightly constricted at the septa, geniculate at the apex, 40-65 × 2-3 μm; conidial scars thickened. Conidia subcylindric, mostly straight, very pale olivaceous brown, 0-3 septate, constricted at the septa, catenulate, bearing thickened scars at each end, 10-35 × 3-4 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Hsitou, 3 Jan. 1985, holotype NCHUPP-143

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Gonostegia hirta (Blume) Miq.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

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 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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