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

Cercospora gerberae Chupp & Viégas, Bol. da Soc. Brasil. de Agron. 8: 27. 1945.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Leaf spots suborbicular to irregular, 1-5 mm in diameter, later coalescing to form large blotches, dark brown, surrounded by a purplish black margin, the dead tissues may drop out leaving the leaf with holes. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata a few brown cells or up to 50 μm in diameter, subglobose, dark brown. Conidiophores in dense divergent fascicles of 10-35, emerging through the stomata, pale olivaceous to pale olivaceous brown, uniform in color, straight, not branched, sparingly septate, 0-3 geniculate, subtruncate at apex, 10-110 × 4-5 μm; conidial scars conspicuously thickened, Conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to slightly curved, indistinctly multi-septate, acute at the apex, truncate at the base with a thickened hilum, 25- 150 × 2-3.5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taichung, NCHU Campus, 4 March, 1984. NCHUPP-1. Nantou Hsien, Puli, 20 Feb. 1986, NCHUPP-lc
 
 
 
　Habitat： On leaves of Gerbera jamesonii Bolus ex Hook. f..
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Brazil, British Solomon Islands, Brunei, Cuba, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Malawi, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda.
 
 
 
　References：

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

W. H. Hsieh
 
 
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