 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Pseudocercospora liquidambaris | |||
| Author： |
Pseudocercospora liquidambaris (Sawada ex) Goh & Hsieh, Cercospora and similar fungi from Taiwan. Maw Chang Book Company, Taipei, Taiwan: 150-151. 1990. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots angular to suborbiucular, 1-10 mm wide, dark brown, sometimes slightly zonate, usually with a narrow raised line border. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata small, 15-40 μm wide, dark brown. Conidiophores short, densely fasciculate, very pale olivaceous, uniform in colour, septation, geniculation, and branching lacking, rounded at the apex, 5-25 × 2-4.5 μm ; conidial scars unthickened and indistinct. Conidia subhyaline to pale olivaceous, nar-rowly obclavate to linear, straight, curved or undulate, indistinctly septate, subacute at the apex, subtruncate or obconically truncate at the base, 40-90 × 2-3.5 μm, hilum unthickened. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei, 14 Dec. 1928, holotype in Herb. NTU-PPE. Taichung, 18 Aug. 1984, NCHUPP-66. |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Liquidambar formosana Hance. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan |
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| References： |
Sawada, K. 1943a. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
This fungus and Cercospora liquidambaris Cooke & Ellis (Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 8:48, 1892) are possibly synonymous. | |||