 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Dothideomycetes >> Order： Dothideomycetes |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Pseudocercospora cocculi | |||
| Author： |
Pseudocercospora cocculi (Sydow) Deighton. Mycol. Pap. 140:142, 1976. Basionym: Cercospora cocculi Sydow, Annls Crypt, exot. 2:264, 1929.. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots angular to irregular, 1-2 mm wide, yellowish brown to dark brown. Fruiting hypophyllous, scantily effuse, olivaceous. Stromata small, dark brown, filling stomatal openings. Conidiophores up to 10 in a fascicle or arise from external hyphae, pale to dark olivaceous brown, irregular in width, 0-3 septate, variously crooked or curved, occasionally branched, truncate or rounded at the apex, 10-45 × 5-8 μm. Conidia pale to very pale olivaceous brown, cylindric or ranging from clavate to obclavate, straight to variously curved, sometimes strongly curved and sigmoid in shape, 2-7 septate, broadly rounded at the apex, rounded or obconically truncate at the base, 20-120 × 6- 8.5 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei, 2 Jan. 1920, Herb. NTU-PPE. |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Cocculus trilobus (Thunb.) DC. | |||
| Distribution： |
India, Japan, Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. Sawada, K. 1942a. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
Cercospora cocculi Sawada may be a distinct species because it has broader conidiophores and conidia. Moreover the conidial scars are thickened very slightly but sometimes not very conspicuous. | |||