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

Pseudocercospora melothriae (Sawada ex) Goh & Hsieh, Trans. mycol. Soc. R.O.C. 2: 133. 1987.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots suborbicular to angular, vein-limited, 1.5-8 mm or confluent up to 15 mm wide, scattered, dingy grey to yellowish brown, sometimes with a yellowish border. Fruiting chiefly hypophyllous. Stromata small or up to 50 μm wide. Conidiophores 2-25 in a diver-gent fascicle, pale olivaceous brown, uniform in colour, irregular in width, straight to tortuous, not branched, 1-5 septate, sometimes slightly constricted at the septa, slightly geniculate, attenuated towards the subtruncate or conically rounded apex, 15-60 × 3-5 μm; conidial scars unthickened. Conidia obclavate, substraight to mildly curved, very pale olivaceous brown, indistinctly 2-12 septate, acute to subacute at the apex, obconic to obconically rounded at the base, 20-110 × 2.5-5 μm, hilum unthickened.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 7 Nov. 1919, holotype in Herb. NTU-PPE, on Melothria heterophylla. Hualien Hsien, Juisui, 2 Aug. 1944, in Herb. NTU-PPE, on M. heterophylla. Taipei, Yangminshan, 10 Oct. 1927, in Herb. NTU-PPE, Cercospora melothriicola on M. maderaspatana.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Melothria heterophylla (Lour.) Cogn. and M. maderasputana (L.) Cogn.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Sawada, K. 1943b.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: Sawada first published this species as Cercospora melothrinae on Melothria hetero-phylla (Lour.) Cogn. but was corrected as C. melothriae on later collections. Sawada also proposed C. melothriicola in his manuscript for his collection dated Oct. 10, 1927 on M. maderaspatana, however, it is synonymous to this fungus. A portion of Sawada's collection dated Aug. 2, 1944 is deposited in the U.S.D.A. Mycological Herbarium.