Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >>  Order: Dothideomycetes 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pseudocercospora spilosticta
 
   
   
 Author:

Pseudocercospora spilosticta (Sydow) Deighton. Mycol. Pap. 140:153, 1976.

Basionym: Cercospora spilosticta Sydow, Annls mycol. 28:217, 1930.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots angularly suborbicular, 3-10 mm, pale yellowish brown on the upper surface, dingy grey on the lower surface. Fruiting hypophyllous, visible as thin grayish effuse layer throughout the spot. Stromata lacking or a few brown cells. Conidiophores several to dense in a fascicle, pale olivaceous brown, paler at the apex, uniform in width, 1-2 septate, not branched, rarely once geniculate, straight to slightly curved, conically rounded at the apex, 15-40 × 3-4.5 μm. Conidia subhyaline to pale olivaceous, narrowly obclavato-cylindric or linear, straight to mildly curved, 2-15 septate, subacute to subobtuse at the apex, long obconically truncate to subtruncate at the base, 20-110 × 2.5-4.5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei, 13 Sept. 1917, Herb. NTU-PPE.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On leaves of Pkhecellobium (Pithecolobium) lucidum Benth.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Argentina, Taiwan, Venezuela.

 
 
 
 References:

Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. Sawada, K. 1942a.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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