Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Passalora personata
 
   
   
 Author:

= Cercosporidium personatum (Bert. & Curt.) Deighton. Mycol. Pap. 112:71 1967.

Basionym: Cladosporium personatum Berkeley & Curtis, Grevillea 3:106, 1875.

Passalora personata (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) S.A. Khan & M. Kamal, Pakistan J. Sci. Res.: 188. 1961.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots orbicular, deep brown or blackish-brown, usually up to 5 mm wide, sometimes up to 10 mm in diameter, with or without a narrow yellow halo, sometimes numerous on a leaf and confluent. Fruiting mostly hypophyllous, or also epiphyllous on larger spots, appearing as discrete large deep olivaceous pustules densely and evenly distributed over the spot. Secondary mycelium absent. Stromata well developed, up to 130 μm or more wide, 80-90 μm high. Conidiophores very numerous (often over 200) in dense fascicle, pale olivaceous, smooth, slightly or strongly geniculate, straight or slightly curved, not branched, 0-3 septate, 17-100 × 4- 6.5 μm; conidial scars conspicuously thickened, usually situated on rounded shoulders or at the end of a short peg-like projection. Conidia concolorous with the conidiophores, subcylindrical, long fusiform-obclavate, or obclavate, sometimes beaked, rarely clavate, usually straight or very slightly curved, usually very finely rough-walled, obtuse or broadly rounded at the apex, shortly tapered at the base to the conspicuously thickened hilum, 1-9 septate, usually not constricted but sometimes slightly constricted at the septa, 20-77 × 4-9 μm, most frequently 3-5 septate (commonly 3 septate) and 3-50 × 5-7.5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung , NCHU Campus, 24 July, 1984, NCHUPP-17.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves, stems and stipules of Arachis hypogea L.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

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 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: This fungus is a common pathogen which causes destructive disease where peanuts are grown intensively.