Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Cercosporella virgaureae
 
   
   
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Basionym: Ramularia virgaureae Thümen, Fungi austriaci 1072 (1874) with latin diagnosis on label: diagnosis repeated in Ousterr. hot. Z. 26:22. 1876.

Cercosporella virgaureae (Thümen) Allescher, Hedwigia 34: 286. 1895.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spot pale yellowish, angular and vein-limited, up to 5 mm wide, visible on both surfaces, without any dark margin, sometimes (in light or very young infections) not very evident, the spot on older lesions often becoming brown. Fruiting amphigenous but usually more abundant on the lower surface, visible as white or very pale greenish patches. Stromata lacking or small. Conidiophores 2-10 in a divergent fascicle, emerging through the stomata, geniculate and sinuous at the apex, but occasionally hardly sinuous at all, smooth, thin-walled, 0-2 septate, conidial scars cap-like, situated on a conspicuous shoulder but sometimes lying more or less flat against the side of the conidiophores, 15-100 × 4-5 μm. Conidia colourless or faintly greenish (concolorous with the conidiophores), subhyaline or obclavato-cylindric, broadly rounded at the apex, hilum slightly thickened and slightly con-vex, smooth, thin-walled, 1-10 septate, not constricted, 30-110 × 3.5-4.5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung Hsien, NCHU Campus, 30 July, 1984, NCHUPP-20.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Erigeron canadensis L., E. linifolius Wilid. and Solidago virgaaurea L. var. leiocarpa (Benth.) A. Gray.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Argentina, Austria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Latvia, Po-land, Rep. of Guinea, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, U.S.A.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh. TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: This fungus sporulates well on PDA and V-8 media.