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

Pseudocercospora schefflerae Hsieh & Goh, Cercospora and similar fungi from Taiwan. Maw Chang Book Company, Taiwan, Taipei: 33-34. 1990.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots irregularly angular, vein limited, with dark border, slightly sunken on the lower side, pale brown, up to 5 mm wide or confluent. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata well developed, globular, up to 50 μm wide, substomatal or bursting the epidermis, dark brown. Conidiophores fasciculate, may up to 20 stalks in a divergent fascicle, sinuous but uniform in width, geniculate, brown, uniform in colour or slightly paler near the apex, 1-3 septate, 30-95 × 3-5 μm; conidial scars unthickened. Conidia pale olivaceous to pale brown, acicular or subcylindric, sometimes clavate, slightly curved, 6-10 septate, obtuse or broadly rounded at the apex, truncate at the base, 45-100 × 4-5 μm; hilum unthickened.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Lienhua Chih, 24 Aug. 1984, NCHUPP-101 and isotype IMI 312073.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Schcfflera octophylla (Lour.) Harms.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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