Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pseudocercospora punicae
 
   
   
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Basionym: Cercospora punicae Hennings, Bot. Jahrb. von Engler 37:165 1906..

Pseudocercospora punicae (Hennings) Deighton. Mycol. Pap. 140:151, 1976.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots orbicular to subangular, 0.5-3 mm wide, dark reddish brown to almost black or sometimes grayisli brown. Fruiting amphigenous but more abundant on the upper surface, visible under hand lens as minute black pustules. Stromata globular, dark brown, 10-60 μm wide. Conidiophores densely fasciculate, subhyaline to very pale fuligineous, uniform in colour, irregular in width, substraight to slightly undulate, rarely branched, not geniculate, 0-2 septate, conic to conically rounded at the apex, 10-55 × 2-3.5 μm. Conidia subhyaline to very pale olivaceous, cylindric to cylindro-obclavate, straight to curved, 2-8 septate, obtuse at the apex, obconic to obconically truncate at the base, 18-85 × 2.5-5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung, NCHU Campus, 22 Aug. 1984, NCHUPP-3.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Punica granatum L.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Bermuda, Brazil, Cuba, Ethiopia, Florida, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kenya, Mainland China, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, San Domingo, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Venezuela, Zambia.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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