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

Cercospora longissima (Cugini in Herb.) Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 18: 607. 1906.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Leaf spots orbicular to irregular, 2-10 mm wide, at first water soaked specks, then becoming tan to brown or dingy grey, sometimes zonate. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata none or only a few brown cells. Conidiophores arise singly or 2-10 in a fascicle, pale olivaceous brown, slightly paler and narrower towards the apex, multiseptate, not branched, sparingly geniculate, rounded or subtruncate at the apex, 25-100 × 4-6 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular to obclavate, straight to curved, indistinctly multiseptate, subacute at the apex, subtruncate at the base, 20-200 × 3-5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taichung, NCHU Campus, 17 Aug. 1984, 1. NCHUPP-65, on Lactuca indica L. 2. Taichung, 23 Aug. 1944, Herb. NTU-PPE, labelled as Cercospora lactucae-sativae Sawada on L. sativa L. Kaohsiung, 4 May, 1913, Herb. NTU-PPE labelled as Cercospora ixeridis-chinensis Sawada on Ixeris chinensis (Thunb.) Nakai.
 
 
 
　Habitat： On leaves of Ixeris chinensis (Thunb.) Nakai, Lactuca indica L. and L. sativa L.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Brazil, Brunei, Cuba, Europe, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Mainland China, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Taiwan, Trinidad, Uganda, Zambia.
 
 
 
　References：

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990; Sawada, K. 1943b.
   
   
   
　Provided：

W. H. Hsieh
 
 
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