 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Pseudospiropes bambusicolum | |||
| Author： |
Pseudospiropes bambusicolum [Sawada ex] Goh & Hsieh, Cercospora and similar fungi from Taiwan. Maw Chang Book Company, Taipei, Taiwan: 147-149. 1990. |
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| Description： |
Leaf spots hypophyllous, suborbicular to elliptic, 2-8 × 1-3 mm, dark brown to black. Fruit-ing hypophyllous, densely floccose. Secondary mycelium absent. Stromata consist of a few large brown cells, irregular. Conidiophores solitary or up to 12 in a fascicle, yellowish brown, paler at the apex, swollen at the base, cylindrical or attenuated towards the apex, not branched, 0-3 septate, sometimes slightly constricted at the septa, 20-45 × 4.5-7 μm; conid-ial scars visible. Conidia pale yellowish to pale brown, broadly obclavate, straight to curved, 1-4 septate, sometimes constricted at the septa, not verruculose, subobtuse at the apex, ob-conic at the base, 20-50 × 5-7 μm, hilum sometimes slightly protruding, slightly thickened, 1-1.5 μm wide. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei, 6 March, 1913, holotype in Herb. NTU-PPE |
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| Habitat： |
On leaves of Bambusa sp. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Sawada, K. 1944. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
This fungus is rather unsuitable to be placed in the genus Cercosporidium because its stromata, conidiophores and conidial scars are distinct from those of the true Cercosporid-ium. | |||