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

Cercospora setariae Atkinson, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 8: 50. 1892.

   
 
 
 
 
 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.

 
 
 
 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.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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