Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pseudocercospora glochidionis
 
   
   
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Basionym: Cercospora glochidionis Sawada, Trans. nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 24 (1916); also Taiwan Agric. Exp. Sta. I (Spec. Bul. 19):37, 670. 1919.

Pseudocercospora glochidionis (Sawada) Goh & Hsieh, Trans. mycol. Soc. R.O.C. 2: 136. 1987.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots circular to irregular, 5-15 mm wide, reddish brown to dark purplish brown, margin brown to pale brown, later the center becomes grey. Fruiting amphigenous, appearing as minute black pustules on the spots. Stromata meagre to well developed, subglobose, filling stomatal openings or erumpent, up to 100 μm wide, dark brown. Conidiophores loosely or very densely fasciculate, up to 100 or more in a fascicle, cylindric, straight to curved, pale olivaceous, 0-3 septate, not branched, rarely geniculate, conically truncate at the apex, 10-35 × 3-4 μm; conidial scars unthickened. Conidia obclavate to cylindric or cylindro-obclavate, subhyaline to very pale olivaceous, straight or slightly curved, indistinctly 1-8 septate, subacute to subobtuse at the apex, obconically truncate at the base, 15-65 × 2.5-3.5 μm, hilum unthickened.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 19 Feb. 1916, holotype in Herb. NTU-PPE.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Glochidion zeylanicum (Gaertn.) A. Juss.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Goh, TK and Hsieh, WH. 1987d.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: A part of Sawada's collections is deposited in the U.S.DA. Mycological Herbarium.