Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Pseudocercospora kaki | |||
Author: | Pseudocercospora kaki Goh & Hsieh, Cercospora and similar fungi from Taiwan. Maw Chang Book Company, Taipei, Taiwan: 109-111. 1990. |
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Description: | Leaf spots angular to irregular, 0.1-3 mm wide, brown, bordered by a dark brown margin. Fruiting chiefly epiphyllous, punctiform. Secondary mycelium absent. Stromata globular, dark brown, 40-50 × 40-70 μm. Conidiophores 30-50 in a fascicle, subhyaline to pale oliva-ceous brown, straight or curved, not branched, rarely 1-septate, not geniculate, rounded or truncate at the apex, 10-25 × 2.5-5 μm; conidial scars unthickened and inconspicuous. Conidia subhyaline to very pale olivaceous, cylindric to filiform, rarely obclavato-cylindric, straight to curved, indistinctly 1-5 septate, subobtuse to obtuse at the apex, subtruncate at the base, 20-60 × 2-4 μm; hilum unthickened and inconspicuous. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taipei, 1 Oct. 1928, 2 Nov. 1933, in Herb. NTU-PPE, la-belled as Cercospora kaki Ellis & Everhart. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Diospyros kaki Thumb. | |||
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: | The above description is based on Sawada's specimen and his original description (Descr. Catal. Formosan Fungi 5: 128, 1931). It may be synonymous to Cercospora kaki Ellis & Everhart (Jour. Mycol. 3: 17, 1887). | |||