Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Cercospora setariae | |||
Author: | Cercospora setariae Atkinson, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 8: 50. 1892. |
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Description: | Leaf spots oval to elliptical, 2-10 mm × 0.5-2 mm, dark reddish brown, later become grey in the center, often confluent. Fruiting amphigenous but chiefly hypophyllous. Stromata small, brown, filling stomatal openings. Conidiophores 2-15 in a divergent fascicle, pale yellowish olivaceous, wavy in shape, 1-2 geniculate, small thickened conidial scars at the rounded apex, 8-40 × 2-3 um. Conidia hyaline, narrowly obclavate, straight to mildly curved or undulate, indistinctly multiseptate, subacute to subobtuse at the apex, subtruncate to long obconically truncate at the base, 30-80 × 1.5-2.5 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taichung Hsien, Kukuan, 27 Oct. 1985, NCHUPP-117a. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Setaria palmifolia (Koen.) Stapf | |||
Distribution: | From Alabama and Oklahoma to Wisconsin and eastward, Argentina, Mainland China, Guatemala, Japan, Lower Russia, Minas Geraes, Taiwan, Uganda. |
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References: | Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. |
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Provided: | W. H. Hsieh |
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Note: | null | |||