 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Dothideomycetes >> Order： Dothideomycetes |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Pseudocercospora salviae | |||
| Author： |
Pseudocercospora salviae Goh & Hsieh. Bot. Bull. Acad. Sinica 30(2):128-129 1989. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots angular to irregular, dull grey to fuligineous brown, without definite margin, 0.5-2.5 mm wide. Fruiting chiefly hypophyllous. Secondary mycelium external: hyphae 1-2 μm wide, subhyaline to pale olivaceous, septate, repent, bearing secondary conidiophores as side branches. Stroma absent. Conidiophores not fasciculate or 2-3 in a fascicle, chiefly borne on external hyphae, pale olivaceous, cylindric or clavate, rarely geniculate, 0-2 septate, subtruncate or rounded at the apex, 5-25 × 2-3.5 μm, conidial scars inconspicuous. Conidia filiform or narrowly obdavate, subhyaline, mostly curved or undulate, 2-10 septate, subacute or subobtuse at the apex, obconic or obconically truncate at the base, 20-75 × 1-2 μm, hilum unthickened and inconspicuous. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Hsinchu, 18 June, 1986, holotype, NCHUPP-222. (isotype also deposited in IMI Herbarium No:312072). |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Salvia splendens Ker-Gawl. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan. |
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| References： |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
Cercospora salviicola Tharp (Mycologia 9:115, 1917) on Salvia spp. differs from this fungus by its fasciculate conidiophores which bear thickened conidial scars and its hyaline, acicular conidia. | |||