Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >> Order: Dothideomycetes | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Passalora curvispora | |||
Author: | = Mycovellosiella curvispora Goh & Hsieh. Bot. Bull. Acad. Sinica 30(2):120-121 1989. Passalora curvispora (Goh & W.H. Hsieh) U. Braun & Crous, Mycosphaerella and its anamorphs: 1. Names published in Cercospora and Passalora: 450. 2003. |
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Description: | Leaf spots angular to irregular, ferruginous with a yellow halo, 1-10 mm wide. Fruiting hypophyllous . Stromata absent. Secondary mycelium external: hyphae emerging from the stomata and ramifying amongst the leaf hairs, varies from almost colourless to pale olivaceous brown, septate, branched, rather straight or arcuate, 3-5 μm wide. Conidiophores borne terminally and as mere short lateral projections bearing dark cicatrices of about 1 μm wide on the external hyphae. Conidia clavate or subcylindric, curved to undulate, pale olivaceous, broadly rounded at the apex, obconic or obtuse at the base with a slightly thickened hilum, 1-6 septate with slight constrictions at the septa, 15-70 × 5-9 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Hueisun, 23 Nov. 1985, holotype, NCHUPP-33. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Broussonetia kazinoki Sieb. | |||
Distribution: | Taiwan. |
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References: | null |
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Provided: | W. H. Hsieh |
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Note: | This fungus differs from Mycovellosiella broussonetiae Goh & Hsieh by its variously curved, clavate and relatively wider conidia. | |||