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

Cercospora kikuchii Matsumoto & Tomoyasu. Annals Phytopath. Soc. of Japan l(6):l 1925.

   
 
 
 
 
 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.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves, stems pods and seeds of Glycine max (L.) Merr.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Widespread wherever the host is grown intensively.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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