Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >> Order: Dothideomycetes | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Pseudocercospora oxalidis | |||
Author: | Pseudocercospora oxalidis Goh & Hsieh. Bot. Bull. Acad. Sinica 30(2): 127 1989. |
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Description: | Leaf spots suborbicular, 1-7 mm in diameter, grayish or medium brown, occasionally with a dark margin. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata absent or just a few hyaline basal cells. Conidiophores very short, colourless or almost so, thin-walled, simple, non-septate, subcylindric or conic, 0-1 geniculate, narrowly rounded or subtruncate at the apex, 3-10 μm long, 2-3 μm wide; conidial scars invisible. Conidia narrowly obclavate, substraight, subhyaline or faintly greenish, smooth, thin-walled, 2-9 septate, conic at the apex, long obconic or obconically truncate at the base, 20-70 × 1.5-2 μm, hilum unthickened and inconspicuous. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Hsinchu, 18 June, 1986, holotype, NCHUPP-153a (isotype in IMI Herbarium No: 312076). |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Oxalis corymbosa DC. | |||
Distribution: | Taiwan. |
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References: | null |
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Provided: | W. H. Hsieh |
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Note: | The short colourless conidiophores, the narrowly obclavate conidia, and the unthickened conidial scars separate this species from others on Oxalis spp. Since the conidia are narrowly obclavate, it is not a Pseudocercosporella for which the conidia are subcylindrical. | |||