Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >> Order: Dothideomycetes | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Cercospora kikuchii | |||
Author: | Cercospora kikuchii Matsumoto & Tomoyasu. Annals Phytopath. Soc. of Japan l(6):l 1925. |
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Description: | Leaf spots suborbicular to angular, small, 0.5-1 mm wide, often confluent and become irregular patches, up to 10 mm wide, later covering the whole leave surface, pale brown to tan or dingy grey center with a reddish brown to purple margin. Fruiting amphigenous, also on stems, pods and seeds. Stromata small. Conidiophores 2-10 in a fascicle, medium dark brown, uniform in colour, multiseptate, not branched, geniculate, subtruncate at the apex, 45-220 × 4-6 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to curved, indistinctly multiseptate, 50-375 × 2.5-5 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taichung Hsien, Shalu, 2 Oct. 1913, Herb. NTU-PPE. |
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Habitat: | On leaves, stems pods and seeds of Glycine max (L.) Merr. | |||
Distribution: | Widespread wherever the host is grown intensively. |
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References: | Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. |
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Provided: | W. H. Hsieh |
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Note: | null | |||