Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 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.

   
 
 
 
 
 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.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Broussonetia kazinoki Sieb.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

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 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: This fungus differs from Mycovellosiella broussonetiae Goh & Hsieh by its variously curved, clavate and relatively wider conidia.