 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Dothideomycetes >> Order： Dothideomycetes |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Pseudocercospora saururicola | |||
| Author： |
Pseudocercospora saururicola [Sawada ex] Goh & Hsieh. Cercopora and similar fungi from Taiwan, 1990. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots suborbicular to irregularly angular, 3-9 mm wide, grayish brown at the center, with a dark brown margin. Fruiting amphigenous. Stromata absent. Conidiophores up to 9 in a fascicle, pale olivaceous brown, paler towards the apex, uniform in width, slightly undulate, 1-3 septate, not branched, not geniculate, subtruncate or conically truncate at the apex, 20-40 × 2.5- 3.5 μm (according to Sawada 47-87 × 4.5-5.5 μm); conidial scars unthickened. Conidia subhyaline to pale olivaceous, acicular, straight to curved, indistinctly 4-10 septate, acute to subobtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, 45-100 × 2.5-4 μm; hilum visible but not thickened. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Hsinchu, 22 Aug. 1908, holotype in Herb. NTU-PPE |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Saururus chinensis (Lour.) Baill. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Sawada, K. 1944. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
This fungus may be synonymous to Cercospora saururi Ell. & Ev. (Jour. Mycol. 3:14, 1887). | |||