 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Cercospora oryzae | |||
| Author： |
Cercospora oryzae Miyake, Jour. Coll. Agric. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 2: 263. 1910. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots oval to elliptic or linear, 2-10 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, pale to dark brown, with center paler than margin. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata none or a few brown cells. Co-nidiophores 1-9 in a fascicle, pale to medium brown, uniform in colour, mostly irregular in width, not branched, 2-5 septate, sometimes constricted at the septa, 1-2 mildly or abruptly geniculate, rounded at the apex, 10-120 × 3-5 μm; conidial scars thickened, 0.5-1 mm wide. Conidia hyaline, cylindric to cylindro-obclavate, straight to slightly curved, 2-5 septate, rounded at the apex, obconic at the base with a small thickened hilum, 15-60 × 3-4.5 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei, 15 July, 1920, Herb. NTU-PPE. |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves, leaf sheaths, pedicels and glumes of Oryza sativa L. | |||
| Distribution： |
Widely distributed in the tropics where rice is grown intensively. |
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| References： |
Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
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