Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >> Order: Dothideomycetes | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Cercospora sesami | |||
Author: | Cercospora sesami Zimmermann. Ber. Land-Forst. Deut.-Ostafr. 2:28 1904. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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 | |||