Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pseudocercospora solani-melongenicola
 
   
   
 Author:

Pseudocercospora solani-melongenicola Goh & Hsieh. Cercospora and similar fungi from Taiwan. Maw Chang Book Company, Taipei, Taiwan:, 1990.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots suborbicular or slightly angular, dingy grey to grayish brown with a dark margin, often surrounded with an indefinite yellowish outer border and slightly zonate in appearance, 2-4 mm wide. Fruiting chiefly epiphyllous. Stromata slight or up to 30 μm wide, brown. Conidiophores 5-10 in a fascicle, pale olivaceous brown, paler towards the apex, straight or 1-2 geniculate, sometimes branched, 1-3 septate, uniform to irregular in width, conically truncate or bluntly rounded at the apex, normally 30-60 μm long but sometimes longer (up to 120 μm) and branched, 3.5-4.5 μm wide; conidial scars visible but not thickened. Conidia olivaceous to pale olivaceous brown, cylindric to cylindro-obclavate, straight to slightly curved, obtuse at the apex, obconically truncate at the base, 30-100 × 3.5-5 μm; hilum visible but not thickened.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Hsinchu, 2 Dec. 1920, holotype in Herb. NTU-PPE, labelled as Cercospora meloogenae Welles.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Solanium melongena L.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Sawada, K. 1943a.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: Cercospora melongenae Welles (Phytopath. 12:63, 1922) differs from this fungus by its conspicuously thickened conidial scars and by its hyaline acicular conidia. Cercospora solanimelongenae Chupp (Bothalia 4:892, 1948) may be synonymous to this fungus but differs by its relatively very much shorter conidiophores (5-30 μm long).