Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Pseudocercospora elephantopi | |||
Author: | Pseudocercospora elephantopi Goh & Hsieh, Cercospora and similar fungi from Taiwan, Maw Chang Book Company, Taipei, Taiwan: 83-84. 1990. |
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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. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Elephantopus mollis H.B.K. | |||
Distribution: | Taiwan. |
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References: | null |
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Provided: | W. H. Hsieh |
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Note: | This fungus and Cercospora elephantopi Ellis & Everhart (Jour. Mycol. 3:15, 1887) are possibly synonymous. | |||