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

Cercospora longipes E. Butler, Mem. Dept. Agric. India 1: 41. 1906.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Leaf spots oval to linear in shape, depending on the affected sugarcane varieties, at first narrow, oval and reddish, later become longer and brown in the center, each with a yellow halo, mostly 3 × 1 mm, sometimes up to 6 mm or may coalesce to form large reddish brown patches of irregular shape, up to 14 mm long. Fruiting amphigenous but mostly hypophyl-lous. Secondary mycelium absent. Stromata a few dark brown cells. Conidiophores up to 18 in a fascicle, compact or divergent, emerging from the stomata, medium brown to dark brown, paler towards the apex, smooth, multiseptate, simple or rarely branched, geniculate, attenuated towards the apex, 40-280 × 4-7 μm; conidial scars conspicuously thickened. Conidia hyaline, obclavate, straight to mildly curved, 3-9 septate, subacute at the apex, ob-conically truncate at the base, 35-120 × 4-7 μm; hilum conspicuously thickened.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

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　Habitat： On leaves of Saccharum officinarum L. and S. spontaneum L. termed as 'Brown spot of sugarcane'.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Common and widely distributed: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, India, Jamaica, Java, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mexico, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nysaland, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Taiwan, Uganda, U.S.A., Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
 
 
 
　References：

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

W. H. Hsieh
 
 
　Note： The above description and illustrations of this fungus are based from the following references: 1. Abbott, E. V., In Sugarcane Diseases of the World 2:25-28 (1964). 2. Ellis, M. B. More Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes:261 (1976). 3. Hsieh, W. H. & D. S. Tseng. Rept. Taiwan Sug. Res. Inst. 79:29-36 (1978). 4. Sivanesan, A. & J. M. Waller. Phytopathol. Pap. 29:40-42 (1986).