 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Cercospora papayae | |||
| Author： |
Cercospora papayae Hansford, Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1942-43: 58. 1943. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots suborbicular to irregular, 3-8 mm wide, pale yellowish brown, with a darker, slightly raised margin. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata lacking or just a few brown cells. Conidiophores 3-30 in a fascicle, pale olivaceous brown to medium brown, paler at the apex, irregular in width, multiseptate, not branched, 0-4 geniculate, 50-130 × 3-5 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular, shorter ones may be cylindric, straight to curved, indistinctly multiseptate, subacute to subobtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, 30-130 × 3-5 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taichung, 6 May, 1968, NCHUPP-01.255. |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Carica papaya L. | |||
| Distribution： |
Brazil, India, Mainland China, Malawi, Mauritius, Nepal, New Guinea, Sey-chelles, Sudan, Taiwan, Tonga, Uganda, Venezuela. |
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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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