Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pseudocercospora canavaliigena
 
   
   
 Author:

Pseudocercospora canavaliigena Yen & Lim. Bull. trimest. Soc. mycol. France 98:366 1982.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots angular, vein-limited, 3-10 mm wide, pale reddish brown, paler on the lower surface. Fruiting chiefly hypophyllous. Secondary mycelium absent. Stromata lacking or up to 60 μm wide, dark brown, rupturing the stomata. Conidiophores in loose fascicle or densely fasciculate, pale olivaceous brown, uniform in colour, cylindric or somewhat clavate in shape, simple or rarely branched, straight to slightly curved, 1-4 septate, 0-2 slightly geniculate, rounded or conically truncate at the apex, 20-70 × 4-5 μm; conidial scars unthickened. Conidia subhyaline to pale olivaceous, cylindro-obclavate, straight to slightly curved, 2-7 septate, sometimes slightly constricted at the septa, obtuse at the apex, obconically truncate at the base, 25-100 μm × 4-5 μm; hilum unthickened.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 6 Nov. 1924, holotype in Herb. NTU-PPE, labelled as Cercospora canavaliae Syd.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Canavalia ensiformis DC.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: This fungus distinctly differs from Cercospora canavaliae H. & P. Sydow which is a Stenella (Deighton, 1971).