Cercospora fuchsiae

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| genus = Cercospora

| species = fuchsiae

| authority = Chupp & A.S. Mull., (1942)

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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.{{Cite web|title = Cercospora fuchsiae Chupp & Muller|url = http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?Link=T&TableKey=14682616000000063&Rec=9861&Fields=All|website = www.mycobank.org|accessdate = 2015-12-11}}

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Category:Fungal plant pathogens and diseases

Category:Fungus species

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