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

Cercospora melongenae Welles. Phytopathology 123:63 1922.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots orbicular to irregular, 4-10 mm wide, brown to grayish brown on the upper surface, dull brown on the lower surface. Fruiting amphigenous but more abundant on lower surface. Stromata lacking or just a few dark brown cells. Conidiophores 3-12 in a fascicle, pale to medium brown, paler towards the apex, sparingly septate, not branched, 0-1 geniculate, truncate at the apex, 20-150 × 4-6.5 μm; conidial scars conspicuously thickened. Conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to mildly curved, indistinctly multiseptate, subacute to subobtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, 40-120 × 3-5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 18 Aug. 1929, Herb. NTU-PPE

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Solanum melongena L
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Fiji, India, Jamaica, Malawi, Mainland China, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Sudan, Taiwan, Trinidad, U.S.A. Zambia.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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