Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >> Order: Dothideomycetes | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Cercospora crotalariae | |||
Author: | Cercospora crotalariae Saccardo. Ann. Roy. Bot. Gardens, Peradeniya 3:2 1906. |
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Description: | Leaf spots suborbicular to irregular, 4-10 mm wide, dingy grey to pale tan, with a dark brown slightly raised margin. Fruiting amphigenous, but more abundant on the upper surface. Stromata small or up to 40 μm. wide. Conidiophores 2-18 in a fascicle, pale to medium brown, paler towards the apex, multiseptate, not branched, straight or geniculate, subtruncate at the apex, 45-110 × 4-6 μm; conidial scars conspicuously thickened. Conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to slightly curved, acute or subacute at the apex, truncate at the base, 40-110 × 2.5-4 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taipei, 7 Nov. 1942, Herb. NTU-PPE |
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Habitat: | On leaves and stems of Crotalaria juncea L. | |||
Distribution: | Sri Lanka, Taiwan. |
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References: | Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. Sawada, K. 1942a. |
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Provided: | W. H. Hsieh |
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Note: | null | |||