 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Dothideomycetes >> Order： Dothideomycetes |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Pseudocercospora sapii-sebiferi | |||
| Author： |
Pseudocercospora sapii-sebiferi [Sawada ex] Goh & Hsieh. Cercospora and similar fungi from Taiwan. Maw Chang Book Company, Taipei, 1990. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots somewhat angular to suborbicular, 2-6 mm wide, brown, with a darker brown margin, often confluent. Fruiting amphigenous but more abundant on lower surface. Stromata up to 60 μm wide, globular, dark brown. Conidiophores densely fasciculate, pale olivaceous, cylindric, mostly straight, not geniculate, not branched, not septate, short, rounded or subtruncate at the apex, 10-15 × 2.5-3 μm ; conidial scars unthickened. Conidia subhyaline to very pale olivaceous, cylindric to cylindro-obclavate, mostly straight to mildly curved, 3-6 septate, subobtuse to obtuse at the apex, subtruncate to obconically truncate at the base, 18-45 × 2.5-3.5 μm; hilum unthickened. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taichung, 7 Dec. 1925, holotype in Herb. NTU-PPE |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Sapium sebiferum (L.) Roxb. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Sawada, K. 1943a. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
Cercospora sapiicola Speg. (1910) differs from this fungus by its relatively wider conidiophores (4-6 μm) and conidia (4-7 μm). | |||