 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Cercospora celosiae | |||
| Author： |
Cercospora celosiae Sydow, Ann. Mycol. 27: 430. 1929. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots circular to suborbicular, 1-5 mm. in diameter or large part of leaf, tan to pale brown, slightly darker margin, frequently causing a pronounced shot-hole effect; fruiting mostly hypophyllous; stromata lacking or small, brown; fascicles 2-15 stalks; conidiophores pale to medium brown, paler and more narrow toward the tip, 0-3 septate, 0-4 geniculate, not branched excepting rarely a bifurcate tip, medium sized spore scars, 3-4.5 × 20-100 μm, conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to curved, indistinctly multiseptate, base truncate, tip acute, 2-3.5 × 30-100 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei, 2 Dec. 1936, NTU-PPE. |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Celosia argentea L., C. aristata L., C. cristata L., C. argentea var. cristata Kuntze, Celosia sp. | |||
| Distribution： |
Brazil, Japan, Mainland China, Oklahoma, Taiwan, Uganda, Venezuela. |
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| References： |
Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
The above description is based on Chupp (1954). | |||