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

Cercospora hydrangeae Ellis & Everhart. Jour. Mycol. 8:71 1902.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots orbicular to angular, brown to dingy grey, usually with a dark reddish brown or almost black margin, often confluent. Fruiting chiefly epiphyllous. Stromata small, consist of a few brown cells. Conidiophores up to 30 in a fascicle, pale to medium brown, multiseptate, not branched, geniculate, slightly attenuated, 10-100 × 4-6 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to mildly curved, indistinctly multiseptate, acute at the apex, truncate at the base, 40-100 × 3-4 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 3 Nov. 1933, Herb. NTU-PPE

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Hydrangea macrophylla (Thunb.) Ser.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Argentina, Brunei, Hong Kong, Japan, Malawi, Malaysia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Taiwan, U.S.A., Zimbabwe (Rhodesia).

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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