Phylum：Ascomycota　>>　Class： Dothideomycetes　>>　 Order： Dothideomycetes 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Pseudocercospora rhapisicola
 
   
   
　Author：

Pseudocercospora rhapisicola (Tominaga) Goh & Hsieh. Trans. mycol. Soc. R.O.C. 4(2):39-56, 1989.

Basionym: Cercospora rhapisicola Tominaga, Trans. mycol. Soc. Japan 5(3):57-59. 1965.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Leaf spots amphigenous, orbicular, confluent and become irregular, 1-2 mm wide, brown in the center, surrounded with a yellowish to orange halo, without distinct margin. Fruiting amphigenous but chiefly epiphyllous, grayish, effuse, or punctiform. Secondary mycelium absent. Stromata small or up to 40 Urn wide, olivaceous brown. Conidiophores 10-20 in a fascicle, subhyaline to very pale brown, paler towards the apex, curved or tortuous, rarely straight, irregular in width, 0-2 septate, sometimes slightly constricted at the septa, not branched, 0-3 geniculate, subtruncate at the apex, 10-30 × 2-4 μm; conidial scars unthickened and inconspicuous. Conidia hyaline, narrowly obclavate or cylindric to filiform, substraight or crooked, usually the septa, cell abruptly bent at the septa, 3-10 indistinctly septate, not constricted at the septa, smooth, subobtuse to bluntly rounded at the apex, subtruncate or obconically truncate at the base, 30-100 × 2-3.5 μm, hilum unthickened and inconspicuous.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taichung, NCHU Campus, 19 Aug. 1988, NCHUPP-254.
 
 
 
　Habitat： On leaves of Rhapis excelsa (Thunb.) Henry ex Rehder.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Japan, Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

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

W. H. Hsieh
 
 
　Note： The type specimen of Cercospora rhapisicola Tominaga (1965) is not available in Taiwan and the new combination was made according to the original literature and the illustration.