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

Exobasidium reticulatum Ito et Sawada, Bot. Mag. Tokyo, 26:241, f. 1-7. 1912..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Infected leaves forming obscure yellow-green spots, sometimes leaf curling, white-net hymenium produced underside of leaf spots. Hymenium composed of basidia and basidiospores. Basidia cylindrical, hyaline, 100–150 × 3.8–5 μm, with 3-4 sterigmata. Sterigmata subulate, 2–3 × 1–2 μm. Basidiospores hyaline, obovoid, banana-shape, 10–12.5 (–14) × 2.5–3.2 μm, with 0-1 septa when germinating. Colony on PDA pale orange to pale yellow-brown, sticky, smooth in early stage, but fragile, irregular wrinkles in old cultures.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

On Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Ktze: Taipei, Pinling, 14 Dec. 2007 & 20 Dec. 2007.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea.

 
 
 
 References:

Sawada, K., 1919; Shih et al., 2008.

   
   
   
 Provided:

Shih, H. H.

 
 
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