Biology:Cercospora fuchsiae
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Short description: Species of fungus
| Cercospora fuchsiae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Capnodiales |
| Family: | Mycosphaerellaceae |
| Genus: | Cercospora |
| Species: | C. fuchsiae
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| Binomial name | |
| Cercospora fuchsiae 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.[1]
References
Wikidata ☰ Q5063988 entry
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