Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Cercospora begoniae
 
   
   
 Author:

Cercospora begoniae Hori, Lect. Plant Dis. 2: 181. 1916.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots circular, 1.5-4 or even 8 mm in diameter, brown with discolorated border, some-times zonate, occasionally falling out and leaving a shot-hole effect. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata lacking or several brown cells. Conidiophores borne singly or 2-6 in a fascicle, pale to very pale brown, paler and more narrow towards the apex, branching absent, straight or geniculate, septate, truncate at the apex, 20-200 × 3-5 μm; conidial scars conspicuously thickened. Conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to mildly curved, indistinctly multiseptate, acute at the apex, truncate at the base with a distinctly thickened hilum, 50-300 × 2-3.5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Puli, 2 Feb. 1986, NCHUPP-214.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Begonia sp.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Japan, Poland, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1987.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh.

 
 
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