Yellowish brown to grayish lesions appear mostly on the upper half of the needle, later coalesce and cause necrosis, the needle die and the disease is known as "Leaf-blight". Fruiting appearing as minute black pustules on the discolorated needles. Stromata up to 60 μm wide, stomatal or erumpent, dark brown. Conidiophores densely fasciculate, olivaceous brown, rarely septate, not branched, 0-1 geniculate, 10-45 × 3-5 μm. Conidia pale yellowish olivaceous, obclavato-cylindric to obclavate, straight to curved, 1-7 septate, obtuse at the apex, obconically truncate at the base, 20-65 × 2.5-4 μm.
Specimens：
Taiwan, Taipei, 9 Aug. 1934, Herb. NTU-PPE, on P. massinana.
Habitat：
On leaves of Finns luchuensis Mayr. and P. massoniana Lamb.
Distribution：
Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Dothideomycetes >> Order： Dothideomycetes 
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