Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Ustilaginomycetes　>>　 Order： Exobasidiales 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Exobasidium gaultheriae
 
   
   
　Author：

Exobasidium gaultheriae Sawada, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 19: 33, 1929..
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Leaf spots inconspicuous, circular, pale yellow to pale green, sometimes bearing pale red, about 2-5 mm in diameter. Hymenium consisting of basidia, basidiospores and conidia. Basidia hyaline, cylindrical to clavate, 31-65 × (4.5-)5-8.3 μm, with (3-)4-6 sterigmata. Sterigmata subulate, (3-)4-6(-6.5) × 1.5-2.5 μm, bearing one basidiospore at the tip. Basidiospores hyaline, obovoid, banana-shape, 11.5-16.5(-18.5) × 3-4(-4.5) μm, with 1-2 septa. Conidia bacilliform to fusiform, 5-15 × 1-2.1 μm. Basidiospores on water agar germinating from each cell and producing conidia without germ tubes. Colonies on PSA pale orange to pale yellow, sticky, smooth or irregularly wrinkled.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

On Gaultheria itoana S. S. Ying: Nantou, RenAi Township, 20 Jun 2005, NTUPPM-584; Nantou, Ho-huan-shan, 20 Jun 2005, NTUPPM-587; Nantou, Ho-huan-shan, 21 Aug 2006, NTUPPM-632. On G. borneusis: Wei-shang, Taichung, K. Sawada, VIII 4, 1928 (Holotype).
 
 
 
　Habitat： On leaves
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan
 
 
 
　References：

Sawada, K., 1931; Shih, H. H. 2006.
   
   
   
　Provided：

Shih, H. H. and Hsieh, H. J.
 
 
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