Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Cercospora sesami
 
   
   
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Cercospora sesami Zimmermann. Ber. Land-Forst. Deut.-Ostafr. 2:28 1904.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots orbicular to suborbicular, 0.5-3 mm wide, grey center with dark brown margin, larger spots may be slightly zonate. Fruiting amphigenous 3-9 in a fascicle, olivaceous brown, paler and narrower towards the apex, multiseptate, rarely branched, straight to geniculate, subtruncate at the apex, 20-110 × 4-4.5 μm. Conidia hyaline, acicular, straight to curved, indistinctly multiseptate, acute at the apex, truncate at the base, 30-150 × 2-4.5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 23 Aug. 1923, Herb. NTU-PPE.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Sesamum orientale L.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Brazil, Fiji, Guinea, India, Japan, Kenya, Mainland China, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, San Domingo, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad, Uganda, U.S.A., Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia).

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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