Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pseudocercospora polygonicola
 
   
   
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Basionym: Cercospora polygonicola Kar & Mandal, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 53:354 1969..

Pseudocercospora polygonicola (Kar & Mandal) Deighton. Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 88(3):365-391, 1987.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots orbicula to irregular, scattered, yellowish brown to rusty brown, 3-7 mm wide. Fruiting amphigenous. Secondary mecelium absent. Stromata none. Conidiophores 4-10 in a divergent fascicle, emerging from the stomata, pale olivaceous brown, uniform in colour, clavate, straight, 0-1 septate, not geniculate, not branched, conically rounded at the apex, 25-40 μm long, 3-4 μm wide below but broader (4.5-6.5 um wide) near the apex, conidial scars inconspicuous and unthickened. Conidia subhyaline to pale olivaceous, plainly obclavate, rarely cylindro-obclavate, straight to mildly curved, 3-10 septate, subacute to subobtuse at the apex, obconic at the base, 40-100 × 3-4.5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 25 Nov. 1924, Herb. NTU-PPE.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Polygonum hydropiper L.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

India, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. Sawada, K. 1943a.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: Pseudocercospora persicariae (Yamam.) Deighton (1976) differs from this fungus by its sooty fruiting, plainly multiseptate and branched brown conidiophores. Cercospora polygonacea Ellis (Jour. Mycol. 1:24, 1885) differs from this fungus by its acicular conidia and thickened conidial scars.