Genus Cercospora in Thailand: Taxonomy and Phylogeny (with a ...
Genus Cercospora in Thailand: Taxonomy and Phylogeny (with a ...
Genus Cercospora in Thailand: Taxonomy and Phylogeny (with a ...
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Hosts – Adiantum philippense, Doryopteris<br />
ludens (Adiantaceae) (Crous & Braun<br />
2003, Meeboon 2009).<br />
Distribution – Tanzania (Crous & Braun<br />
2003), <strong>Thail<strong>and</strong></strong> (Meeboon 2009).<br />
Notes – Dorypoteris ludens is a fern<br />
belong<strong>in</strong>g to family Adiantaceae. Three species<br />
of <strong>Cercospora</strong> s. str. have been reported from<br />
Adiantum spp., viz, C. adianticola R.K.<br />
Srivast., A.K. Srivast. & Kamal (C. apii s. lat.),<br />
C. adiantigena U. Braun & Crous, <strong>and</strong> C.<br />
pteridigena M.K. Khan, R.K. Verm & Kamal.<br />
This specimen is identified as C. adian-tigena<br />
due to short <strong>and</strong> obclavate conidia (53–60 × 2–<br />
3 μm vs 40–90 × (4) 5–8 μm C. adian-tigena.<br />
It is dist<strong>in</strong>ct form for C. pteridigena due to the<br />
later species hav<strong>in</strong>g very long conidio-phores<br />
<strong>and</strong> large conidiogenous loci (4-5 μm diam.).<br />
This specimen was first reported from <strong>Thail<strong>and</strong></strong><br />
by (Meeboon 2009).<br />
Amaranthaceae<br />
Plant Pathology & Quarant<strong>in</strong>e<br />
<strong>Cercospora</strong> canescens Ellis & G. Mart<strong>in</strong>,<br />
Amer. Naturalist 16: 1003 (1882).<br />
≡ Cercosporiopsis canescens (Ellis & G.<br />
Mart<strong>in</strong>) Miura, Flora of Manchuria <strong>and</strong> East<br />
Mongolia 3: 529 (1928).<br />
= <strong>Cercospora</strong> vignicaulis Tehon,<br />
Mycologia 29: 436 (1937).<br />
(= C. apii s. lat.) (Fig. 15)<br />
Leaf spots – 3–6 mm diam., amphigenous,<br />
dark to yellowish. Caespituli hypophyllous.<br />
Stromata mostly lack<strong>in</strong>g, if present<br />
small, up to 8 μm diam., composed of 4–5<br />
globose to subglobose, brown to dark brown<br />
cells. Conidiophores 90.5–192 × 3–4 μm, up to<br />
5 <strong>in</strong> loose fascicles, 3–7-septate, aris<strong>in</strong>g from<br />
stomata, straight, smooth, brown at the base<br />
<strong>and</strong> paler toward the apex, unbranched, cyl<strong>in</strong>drical,<br />
geniculate. Conidiogenous cells <strong>in</strong>tegrated,<br />
holoblastic, polyblastic, sympo-dially<br />
proliferat<strong>in</strong>g. Conidiogenous loci 2.5–3.5 μm<br />
diam., conspicuous, thickened <strong>and</strong> darkened<br />
Fig. 15 – L<strong>in</strong>e draw<strong>in</strong>gs of <strong>Cercospora</strong> canescens on Celosia argentea. a. Conidia. b.<br />
Conidiophores <strong>and</strong> stromata. Bars: = 50 μm. (Meeboon 2009).<br />
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