Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Dothideomycetes >> Order: Dothideomycetes | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Pseudocercospora symploci | |||
Author: | Basionym: Cercospora symploci Katsuki & Kobayashi, Trans. mycol. Soc. Japan 16:10, 1975. Pseudocercospora symploci (Sawada ex Kats. & Kobay.) Deighton. Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 88:389, 1987. |
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Description: | Leaf spots suborbicular to irregular, 1.5-5 mm in diameter or coalesced up to 15 mm wide, dingy grey at center, with a wide reddish brown border. Fruiting amphigenous but chiefly epiphyllous. Secondary mycelium external: hyphae emerging from the stomata, pale olivaceous, septate, 1.5-2.5 μm wide, bearing secondary conidiophores as side branches. Stromata none or up to 30 μm wide, dark brown. Conidiophores arise singly from external secondary mycelial hyphae or 3-15 in a fascicle, pale olivaceous brown, paler towards the apex, cylindric or attenuated, slightly curved to undulate, not branched, 0-2 septate, 0-2 geniculate, subtruncate or conically truncate at the apex, 10-50 × 2.5-4.5 μm; conidial scars inconspicuous. Conidia obclavate to aciculo- obclavate, straight to mildly curved, pale olivaceous, indistinctly 2-15 septate, subacute at the apex, subtruncate or obconically truncate at the base, 30-130 × 2.5-4 μm; hilum inconspicuous. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Hsinchu, 27 April, 1930, Herb. NTU-PPE. Taichung Hsien, Tachia, 28 Aug. 1945, Herb. NTU-PPE. Taichung Hsien, Tanan, 27 Nov. 1987, NCHUPP-241. |
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Habitat: | On leaves of Symplocos paniculata (Thunb.) Miq. | |||
Distribution: | Japan, Taiwan. |
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References: | Hsieh, WH and Goh, TK. 1990. Sawada, K. 1943a. |
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Provided: | W. H. Hsieh |
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Note: | A part of Sawada's collection is deposited in the U.S.D.A. Mycological Herbarium. | |||