 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Dothideomycetes >> Order： Dothideomycetes |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Cercospora malachrae | |||
| Author： |
Cercospora malachrae Heald & Wolf. Mycologia 3:19 1911. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots distinct on upper surface, irregularly angular, vein-limited, confluent, up to 15 mm wide, at first purplish red, later grayish brown at center, sometimes with a dark-reddish brown margin. Fruiting chiefly epiphyllous. Secondary mycelium absent. Stromata absent or a few brown cells. Conidiophore arises singly or 2-6 in a fascicle, pale to medium brown, uniform in colour and width but paler and slightly attenuated at the apex, erect, geniculate, not branched, multiseptate, 50-400 × 4-6 μm; conidial scars thickened conspicuously. Conidia hyaline, straight to curved, indistinctly multiseptate, acute at the apex, truncate at the base with a thickened hilum, 50-150 × 2-4 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Hueisun, 10 Dec. 1986, NCHUPP-28b. |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Urena lobata L. | |||
| Distribution： |
Brazil, Puerto Rico, San Domingo, Taiwan, Texas, Trinidad, Venezuela. |
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| References： |
Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
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