Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pseudocercospora callicarpae
 
   
   
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Basionym: Cercospora callicarpae Cooke, Grevillea 6:140, 1878..

Pseudocercospora callicarpae (Cooke) Guo & Zhao. Acta Mycol. Sinica 8:118, 1989.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots angular to irregular, vein-limited, 1-3 mm wide, often confluent, reddish brown, paler in the center. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata small or up lo 30 μm wide, brown. Conidiophores up to 30 in a fascicle, pale olivaceous brown, uniform in colour, cylindric, 0-2 septate, not constricted, not branched, 0-2 geniculate, rounded or subtruncate at the apex, 15- 40 × 3-4 μm, conidial scars unthickened. Conidia subhyaline to pale olivaceous, cylindro-acicular or rarely linear, substraight to curved, 5-12 septate, subobtuse or rounded at the apex, subtruncate or truncate at the base, 50-95 × 3-4 μm; hilum unthickened.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 25 Nov. 1924, holotype in Herb. NTU-PPE

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Callicarpa formosana Roife
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Goh, TK and Hsieh, WH. 1989. Sawada, K. 1943a.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: This fungus differs from Cercospora callicarpae Cooke (Grevillea 6:140. 1878) by its angular leaf spots and subhyaline acicular conidia.