 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Cercospora pulcherrimae | |||
| Author： |
Cercospora pulcherrimae Tharp, Mycologia 9: 114. 1917. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots suborbicular to irregular, 1-10 mm in diameter, grayish brown, confluent to form large spots, often occurring at the leaf margin. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata lacking or small, up to 40 μm in diameter. Conidiophores 3-12 in a divergent fascicle, pale to medium olivaceous brown, uniform in colour and width, sometimes paler and attenuated towards the apex, multisep- tate, rarely branched, straight or crooked, 0-3 geniculate, 40-120 × 4-6 μm; conidial scars thickened conspicuously. Conidia acicular, hyaline, straight to curved, indis-tinctly multiseptate, acute to subacute at the apex, truncate at the base with a thickened hi-lum, 60-110 × 2.5-4 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taitung Hsien, Chishang, 2 Feb. 1985, NCHUPP-158. |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch. | |||
| Distribution： |
Brazil, Jamaica, Missouri, Oklahoma, Taiwan, Texas, Uganda, Wisconsin. |
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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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