Cercospora fuchsiae

Cercospora fuchsiae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Subclass: Dothideomycetidae
Order: Capnodiales
Family: Mycosphaerellaceae
Genus: Cercospora
Species: C. fuchsiae
Binomial name
Cercospora fuchsiae
Chupp & A.S. Mull., (1942)

Cercospora fuchsiae is a fungal plant pathogen.

Description

  • Leaf spots circular to angular, 2–8 mm. in diameter, pale to medium dark brown, the older spots with a pale center or with concentric rings and a dark line margin
  • fruiting chiefly epiphyllous
  • stromata a few cells to 30 µm in diameter, dark brown; fascicles 3-20 diverging stalks; conidiophores pale to medium dark brown, paler and sometimes more narrow toward the tip, plainly multiseptate, slightly branched, 0-2 geniculate or undulate, straight to curved, medium spore scar at the subtruncate tip, 4-5.5 x 30-130 µm
  • conidia hyaline, acicular to obclavate, straight to mildly curved, indistinctly multiseptate, base truncate to long obconically truncate, tip subacute to subobtuse, 2-3.5 x 20-75 µm.[1]

References

  1. "Cercospora fuchsiae Chupp & Muller". www.mycobank.org. Retrieved 2015-12-11.


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