Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pseudocercospora hibisci-cannabini
 
   
   
 Author:

Pseudocercospora hibisci-cannabini (Sawada) Deighton. Mycol. Pap. 140:145 1976.

Basionym: Cercospora hibisci-cannabini Sawada, Rept. Dept. Agric. Govern. Res. Inst. Taiwan 2:153, 1922..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots indistinct on upper surface, or merely slight yellowish discoloration, more or less angular, without definite margin. Fruiting amphigenous but extremely abundant on lower surface, vein-limited and angular, confluent and covering a large area of the leaf, sooty in appearance. Stromata up to 30 μm wide, filling stomatal openings, dark brown. Conidiophores densely fasciculate or sometimes arising from ex-ternal mycelial hyphae, pale olivaceous brown, straight or curved, simple or branched, 0-1 geniculate, 0-3 septate, conically rounded or subtruncate at the apex, 10-35 × 3-5 μm, conidial scars unthickened. Conidia pale olivaceous, varying from cylindric to narrowly obclavate, straight to mildly curved, 3-7 septate, acute to rounded at the apex, obconic to subtruncate at the base, 20-50 × 2-4 μm, hilum unthickened.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 6 Oct. 1914, Herb. NTU-PPE.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Hibiscus cannabinus L.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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