Cercospora fuchsiae

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Kingdom Fungi Class Dothideomycetes Order Capnodiales Scientific name Cercospora fuchsiae		Phylum Ascomycota Subclass Dothideomycetidae Family Mycosphaerellaceae Rank Species
Similar Cercospora handelii, Cercospora apii, Cercospora beticola, Cercospora

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.

References

Cercospora fuchsiae Wikipedia

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