 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Pseudocercospora bixicola | |||
| Author： |
Pseudocercospora bixicola Goh & Hsieh, Cercospora and similar fungi from Taiwan. Maw Chang Book Company, Taiwan, Taipei: 43-44. 1990. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots large, 3-15 mm wide, circular to irregular, brown, tan or grey, with dark reddish brown margin. Fruiting amphigenous but mostly hypophyllous. Stromata globular, dark brown, 20-60 μm wide. Conidiophores densely fasciculate, pale olivaceous, cylindrical, 0-3 septate, branched, not or rarely geniculate, conically rounded at the apex, 15-40 × 2.5-4 μm; conidial scars unthickened or inconspicuous. Conidia pale olivaceous, obclavato-cylindric, straight to mildly curved, indistinctly 3-6 septate, subobtuse at the apex, obconic or obconi-cally rounded at the base, 30-60 × 2-3 μm; hilum unthickened. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei, 24 Feb. 1929, holotype NTU-PPE, Feb. 24, 1929. |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Bixa orellana L. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
This fungus differs from Cercospora bixae Allescher & Noack (Bot. Inst. Agron. Est. Sao Paulo em Campinas 9:85, 1898) by its obclavato-cylindric conidia. | |||