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.

   
 
 
 
 
 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.

 
 
 
 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.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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