Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
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Scientific Name: | Cercospora grandissima | |||
Author: | Cercospora grandissima Rangel. Bol. Agric. Sao Paulo, XVI A. 4 :322. 1955. |
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Description: | Leaf spots orbicular, 1-5 mm wide, at first uniformly reddish brown, later becoming grayish in the center with a brown border. Fruiting amphigenous but sometimes chiefly epiphyllous. Stromata lacking or a few brown cells. Conidiophores 1-10 in a fascicle, pale to medium brown, fairly uniform in colour and width, multiseptate, not branched, straight or 1-3 geniculate with thickened conidial scars, subtruncate at the apex, 40-160 × 4-4.5 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to slightly curved, indistinctly multiseptate, acute at the apex, truncate at the base with a thickened hilum, 40-35 × 2-4.5 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taipei, 19 Jan. 1934, Herb. NTU-PPE. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Dahlia variabilis Desf. (D. pinnata Cav.) | |||
Distribution: | Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, India, Jamaica, Japan, Mainland China, Malaysia, Mauritius, Philippines, Southern Sierra Leone, Taiwan, Zambia. |
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References: | Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. |
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Provided: | W. H. Hsieh |
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Note: | null | |||