Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Cercospora corchori
 
   
   
 Author:

Cercospora corchori Sawada. Taiwan Agric. Exp. Sta. I (Special Bull. 19):37, 667 1919.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots angular or irregular, vein-limited, 0.5-2 mm wide, often confluent to form larger spots, dark brown, paler on lower surface. Fruiting amphigenous, but more abundant on lower surface. Stromata when present small, dark brown. Conidiophores arise singly or 2-7 in a fascicle, pale to medium olivaceous brown, paler at the apex, sparingly septate, not branched, 1-2 geniculate, subtruncate at tip, with thickened conidial scars, 25-60 × 4-5 μm. Conidia hyaline to subhyaline, acicular to obclavate, straight to curved, indistinctly multiseptate, acute at the apex, truncate or subtruncate at the base with a thickened hilum, 25-90 × 2-3 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Hsitou, 2 Jan. 1985, NCHUPP-138.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Corchorus olitorius L.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Brazil, Cuba, India, Mainland China, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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