Phylum：Ascomycota　>>　Class： Dothideomycetes　>>　 Order： Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Pseudocercospora nigricans
 
   
   
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Basionym: Cercospora nigricans Cooke, Grevillea 12:30, 1883..

Pseudocercospora nigricans (Cooke) Deighton. Mycol. Pap. 140:149, 1976.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Leaf spots indefinite or merely yellowish discoloration at first, later becoming grayish brown, 2-3 mm wide, without definite border. Fruiting hypophyllous, sooty effuse. Stromata none or only a few cells. Conidiophores 2-12 in a fascicle, pale olivaceous brown, uniform in colour, 1-3 septate, branched, mildly to abruptly geniculate, conically truncate at the apex, 15-125 × 3-5 μm. Conidia cylindric to cylindro-obclavate, subhyaline to pale olivaceous, straight, 1-10 septate, obtuse at the apex, obconically truncate at the base, 20-80 × 3-5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taichung Hsien, Kukuan, 27 Oct. 1985, NCHUPP-191, on Cassia occidentalis L. Taichung Hsien, Tali, 12 Nov. 1945, Herb. NTU-PPE, labelled as Cercospora cassiae-torosae on Cassia torosa Cav.
 
 
 
　Habitat： On leaves of Cassia spp.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Burma, Cuba, Japan, Mauritius, Philippines, Sabah, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Taiwan, Trinidad, U.S.A., Venezuela.
 
 
 
　References：

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.
   
   
   
　Provided：

W. H. Hsieh
 
 
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