Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
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Scientific Name: | Pseudocercospora ebulicola | |||
Author: | Pseudocercospora ebulicola (Yamam.) Deighton, Mycol. Pap. 140: 143. 1976. Basionym: Cercospora ebulicola Yamamoto, Trans. Sappro nat. Hist. Soc. 13:139. 1934. |
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Description: | Leaf spots indefinite on upper surface, merely yellowish or pale brownish discoloration, somewhat orbicular to irregular, without definite border. Fruiting strictly hypophyllous, olivaceous to brownish in colour, effuse in irregular patches on corresponding lower leaf surface, 2-4 mm wide or confluent and become wider. Stromata lacking or a few brown cells filling stomatal openings. Conidiophores 3-12 in a fascicle, pale to medium olivaceous, in mass, pale brown, uniform in colour, irregular in width, tortuous, geniculate, multiseptate, constricted, branched, subtruncate or conically truncate at the apex, 60-150 × 4-5 μm; conidial scars unthickened. Conidia subhyaline to pale yellowish, acicular to aciculo-cylindric, shorter ones cylindric, substraight to mildly curved or undulate, 3-11 septate, not constricted, subobtuse to rounded at the apex, truncate or subtruncate at the base, 35-130 × 3.5-4.5 μm; hilum unthickened and inconspicuous. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taipei, 16 Aug. 1929, NTU-PPE. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Sambucus formosana Nakai. | |||
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: | Chupp (1954) placed this fungus as a synonym of Cercospora catenospora Atkinson (i.e. Phaeoramularia catenospora (Atk.) Deighton in M. B. Ellis,1976). However, this fungus is distinct by its conidial scars being unthickened and its conidia not catenulate. | |||