 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Cercospora zinniae | |||
| Author： |
Cercospora zinniae Ellis & Martin, Jour. mycol. 1: 20. 1885. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots circular to angular, 0.5-8 mm wide, at first brown, later becoming grey or white with a dark brown or purplish red margin. Fruiting amphigenous, but mostly epiphyllous. Stromata lacking or a few dark brown cells. Conidiophores 2-20 in a fascicle, pale to me-dium dark olivaceous brown, paler and narrower towards the apex, multiseptate, not branched, straight or geniculate, subtruncate at the apex, 10-120 × 4-6 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular or obclavate, straight to mildly curved, indistinctly multiseptate, acute to subacute at the apex, truncate to subtruncate at the base, 20-140 × 2-4 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taichung Hsien, Hsinshe, 9 July, 1934, Herb. NTU-PPE. |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Zinnia elegans Jacq. | |||
| Distribution： |
North and South America, Guam, Japan, Mainland China, Salvador, Taiwan, Thailand, 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： |
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