Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >> Order: Dothideomycetes | ||||
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Scientific Name: | Pseudocercospora stahlii | |||
Author: | Pseudocercospora stahlii (Stev.) Deighton. Mycol. Pap. 140:82-84, 1976. Basionym: Helminthosporium stahlii Stevens. Trans. III. Acad. Sci. 10:208 1917. |
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Description: | Leaf spots merely indefinite yellowish areas, or sometimes brown angular areas, up to 5 mm wide. Fruiting amphigenous, more abundant on the lower surface, dark, effuse, densely velutinous, suborbicular or angular and vein limited, up to 5 mm wide. Secondary mycelium absent. Stromata absent or just a few brown cells. Conidiophores up to 18 in a laxly divergent fascicle, emerging through the stomata, yellowish olivaceous to olivaceous brown, substraight or slightly sinuous, geniculate, branched 1-3 times, septate, shortly tapered to the apical conidial scars which is later displaced to remain visible as a short lateral peg, 50-150 × 4-7 μm. Conidia concolorous with the conidiophores, mostly clavate or cylindric, broadly rounded at the apex, base apiculate with a truncate hilum, the longer ones long-ellipsoid or even slightly obclavate, 1-7 septate, most commonly 3 septate, sometimes slightly constricted, 20-60 × 4-7 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Puli, 15 July, 1985, NCHUPP-80. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Passiflora foetida L. var. hispida (DC. ex Triana & Planch.) Killip in Gleason, Bull. | |||
Distribution: | Africa, N. America, Brunei, India, Malaysia, New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Taiwan and Trinidad. |
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References: | Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. |
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Provided: | W. H. Hsieh |
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Note: | null | |||