Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pseudocercospora melastomobia
 
   
   
 Author:

Pseudocercospora melastomobia (Yamam.) Deighton. Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 88(3):388, 1987.

Basionym: Cercospora melastomobia Yamamoto, Trans. nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 26:283, 1936..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots amphigenous, suborbicular, 1-4 mm wide, center whitish to pale grayish brown, with a brown to purplish border, occasionally with a yellow halo. Fruiting always epiphyllous. Stromata dark brown, 30-40 μm wide. Conidiophores up to 25 in a fascicle, pale to medium olivaceous brown, paler and narrower towards the apex, simple, rarely branched, straight to subfiexuous, sometimes torulose, sparingly septate, not geniculate, rounded or truncate at the apex, 10-50 × 3.5-5.5 μm; conidial scars unthickened. Conidia filiform, subhyaline to very pale olivaceous, substraight to strongly curved, indistinctly 7-15 septate, subobtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, 50-150 × 3-4 μm; hilum unthickened.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 6 May, 1934, holotype in Herb. NTU-PPE.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Melastoma condidum D. Don.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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