Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
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Scientific Name: | Pseudocercospora blumeae | |||
Author: | Basionym: Cercospora blumeae Thümen, Revue mycol. 2:38. 1880. Pseudocercospora blumeae (Thümen) Deighton, Mycol. Pap. 140: 140. 1976. |
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Description: | Leaf spots none or indistinct yellowish areas on the upper surface. Fruiting hypophyllous as sooty layer on the lower surface, forming orbicular or angular spots, 7-8 mm in diameter, sometimes covering much of the leaf area. Secondary mycelium absent. Stromata lacking. Conidiophores meagre to fairly dense in a divergent fascicle, medium brown, pale at the apex, irregular in width, rarely branched or geniculate, straight to variously curved, closely and plainly septate, sometimes constricted at the septa, 40- 200 × 4-5.5 μm, conidial scars inconspicuous. Conidia subhyaline to pale olivaceous brown, cylindric to obclavate, straight to mildly curved, 3-8 septate, sometimes constricted at the septa, tip subobtuse to rounded, base obconically truncate, 30-80 × 4-6 μm, hilum unthickened. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Hsitou, 1 Jan, 1985, NCHUPP-97. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Blumea sp. | |||
Distribution: | Sri Lanka, 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: | null | |||