Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pseudocercospora elephantopi
 
   
   
 Author:

Pseudocercospora elephantopi Goh & Hsieh, Cercospora and similar fungi from Taiwan, Maw Chang Book Company, Taipei, Taiwan: 83-84. 1990.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots circular, brown, without definite border, 2-4 mm wide. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata filling stomatal openings, composed of brown cells. Conidiophores 2-12 in a fascicle, pale olivaceous, cylindric, 0-2 septate, not branched, rarely geniculate, 10-40 × 3.5-4.5 μm; conidial scars unthickened. Conidia narrowly obclavate to filiform, straight to sinuous or slightly curved, subhyaline to very pale olivaceous, indistinctly 4-10 septate, acute to subacute at the apex, obconic to obconically truncate at the base, 40-110 × 2-3.5 μm; hilum unthickened.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Waichecheng, 22 Aug. 1944, Herb. NTU-PPE.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Elephantopus mollis H.B.K.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

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 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: This fungus and Cercospora elephantopi Ellis & Everhart (Jour. Mycol. 3:15, 1887) are possibly synonymous.