Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Cercospora coffeicola
 
   
   
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Cercospora coffeicola Berkeley & Cooke. Grevillea 9:99 1881.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots orbicular, 3-10 mm wide, tan, grey, or white center with a reddish brown to almost black margin, sometimes distinctly zonate, paler on the lower surface. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata lacking or up to 50 μm wide, globular, dark brown. Conidiophores 3-30 in a fascicle, pale olivaceous to medium brown, slightly paler near the apex, sometimes branched, multiseptate, geniculate, truncate at the apex, 20-200 × 4-6 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular to obclavate, straight to mildly curved, indistinctly multiseptate, acute at the apex, truncate or subtruncate at the base, 40-150 × 2-4 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Hueisun, 10 Dec. 1986, NCHUPP-195b.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Coffea arabica L.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Common and widespread throughout the tropics.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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