Cercospora fuchsiae is a fungal plant pathogen.

Cercospora fuchsiae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Capnodiales
Family: Mycosphaerellaceae
Genus: Cercospora
Species:
C. fuchsiae
Binomial name
Cercospora fuchsiae
Chupp & A.S. Mull., (1942)

Description edit

  • 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 edit

  1. ^ "Cercospora fuchsiae Chupp & Muller". www.mycobank.org. Retrieved 2015-12-11.