Phylum：Ascomycota　>>　Class： Dothideomycetes　>>　 Order： Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Pseudocercospora abelmoschi
 
   
   
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Basionym: Cercospora abelmoschi Ellis & Everhart, Jour. Inst. Jamaica 1:247, 1893.

Pseudocercospora abelmoschi (Ell. & Ev.) Deighton. Mycol. Pap. 140:138, 1976.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Leaf spots indistinct or yellowish to dark brown angular-patches, often with a yellowish halo, 2-4 mm wide. Fruiting hypophyllous, effuse on corresponding lower surface, sooty to dark olivaceous, vein-limited, often confluent. Stromata lacking or small. Secondary mycelium external: hyphae subhyaline to pale olivaceous brown, arising from among the fasciculate primary conidiophores, septate, branched, repent or sometimes arcuate, bearing secondary conidiophores terminally and laterally. Primary conidiophores meager to dense in a fascicle, pale to medium olivaceous brown, uniform in colour, 0- 3 septate, sometimes constricted at the septa, irregular in width or slightly clavate in shape, simple or branched, sparingly geniculate, sinuous, rounded or conically truncate at the apex, 10-50 × 3-5 μm. Conidia pale olivaceous to pale olivaceous brown, obclavate to cylindric, straight to mildly curved, 2- 8 septate, acute to subobtuse at the apex, obconic to obconically truncate at the base, 25-80 × 2.5-4 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taichung, NCHU Casmpus, 19 Aug. 1984, NCH.UPP-75, on Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. cv. 'Ruber'. Tainan, 8 Aug. NCHUPP- 114a, on Hibiscus syriacus L.
 
 
 
　Habitat： On leaves of Hibiscus spp..
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Antigua, Australia, Brunei, Burma, Gabon, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, India, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mainland China, Malawi, Malaysia, New Hebrides, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, San Domingo, Sierra Leone, St. Vincent, Singapore, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Trinidad, Uganda, U.S.A., Venezuela, Yemen.
 
 
 
　References：

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.
   
   
   
　Provided：

W. H. Hsieh
 
 
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