Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >> Order: Dothideomycetes | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Pseudocercospora formosana | |||
Author: | Pseudocercospora formosana (Yamam.) Deighton. Mycol. Pap. 140:144 1976. Basionym: Cercospora formosana Yamamoto, Jour. Soc. trop. Agric. 6:600, 1934. |
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Description: | Leaf spots angular to irregular, vein-limited, 1-3 mm wide, brown or purplish, paler on the lower surface. Fruiting hypophyllous. Stromata absent. Secondary mycelium external: hyphae emerging through the stomata or arise from the base of a loose fascicle, subhyaline to very pale olivaceous brown, repent or arcuate, distinctly septate, branched, 1.5-2.5 μm wide. Conidiophores 2-6 in a fascicle or borne terminally and laterally on the secondary mycelial hyphae, pale olivaceous brown, uniform in colour and width, simple or branched, straight or slightly undulate, 0-2 septate, sometimes constricted at the septa, not geniculate, rounded or conic at the apex, 5-35 × 2-4 μm. Conidia subhyaline to very pale olivaceous, narrowly obclavate or filiform, straight to slightly curved, indistinctly 3-10 septate, subacute at the apex, obconically truncate at the base, 17-100 × 2-3 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taichung, NCHU Campus, 12 Aug. 1984, NCHUPP-43. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Lantana camara L. and L. camara L. var. mista (L.) Bailey | |||
Distribution: | Singapore, Taiwan. |
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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 | |||