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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