 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Dothideomycetes >> Order： Dothideomycetes |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Pseudocercospora paederiae | |||
| Author： |
Pseudocercospora paederiae [Sawada ex] Goh & Hsieh. Cercospra and similar fungi from Taiwan. Maw Chang Book Company, Taipei, Taiwan, 1990. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots angular, vein-limited, 1-6 mm wide, confluent, tan to pale brown center with a dark brown margin. Fruiting amphigenous. Secondary mycelium absent. Stromata subglobular, dark brown, 30-50 μm wide. Conidiophores up to 25 in a fascicle, pale to medium olivaceous brown, paler towards the apex, uniform in width, 1-5 septate, not branched, straight or 0-2 geniculate, bluntly rounded or conically truncate at the apex, 20-120 × 3-4 μm, conidia scars unthickened. Conidia subhyaline to pale olivaceous brown, cylindro-obclavate, straight to mildly curved, 1-5 septate, obtuse to subobtuse at the apex, obconically truncate at the base, 30-80 × 3.5-5 μm; hilum unthickened. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei, 12 Oct. 1919, holotype in Herb. NTU-PPE |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Paederia scandens (Lour.) Merr. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. Sawada, K. 1944. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
This fungus and Cercospora paederiae Tai (Bul. Chinese Bot. Soc. 2: 56, 1936) are possibly synonymous. | |||