Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Cercosporidium atrides
 
   
   
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Basionym: Cercospora atrides H. Sydow, Ann. Mycol. 20:65. 1922.

Cercosporidium atrides (H. Sydow) Goh & Hsieh, Cercospora and similar fungi from Taiwan. Maw Chang Book Company, Taipei, Taiwan, 376 pp. 1990.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots none or indefinite. Fruiting chiefly hypophyllous, dark olivaceous in minute punctiform patches. Stromata well developed, hemispheric, consist of dark brown cells, subimmersed, 65-105 μm wide. Conidiophores very densely fasciculate, dark olivaceous brown, cylindric. straight to slightly curved, 1-3 septate, not branched, rarely geniculate, 20-55 × 5-8 μm ; conidial scars conspicuously thickened. Conidia obclavate to cylindric or fusiform, dark olivaceous brown, thick walled, 2-7 septate, slightly constricted at the septa, obtuse at both ends, 18-45 × 6-8 μm; hilum thickened.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taitung, 18 March, 1944, Herb. NTU-PPE, on Bridelia. monoica Nantou, 29 Nov. 1928, Herb NYU-PPE, on B. balansae.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Bridelia monoica (Lour.) Merr. and B. balansae Tutch.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Mainland China, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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