Genus Cercospora in Thailand: Taxonomy and Phylogeny (with a ...

Plant Pathology & Quarantine
Fig. 41 – Line drawings of Cercospora acalyphae on Acalypha wilkesiana. a. Conidiophores and
stromata. b. Conidia. Bars = 50 μm. (Meeboon 2009).
Fig. 42 – Line drawings of Cercospora codiaei on Codiaeum variegatum. a. Conidiophores and
stromata. b. Conidia. Bars = 50 μm. (Meeboon 2009)
Notes – Meeboon et al. (2007c) were the
first to report this species from Thailand.
Literature – Chupp (1954, p. 200-201).
Cercospora codiaei Gonz. Frag. & Cif., Boln
de la Real Soc. Españ. Hist. Nat., Madrid 26:
199 (1926).
(= C. apii s. lat.) Fig. 42
Leaf spots 2–15 mm diam., amphigenous,
subcircular, solitary, pale brown, with reddish
brown margin. Caespituli amphigenous. Stromata
38–44 μm diam., small, substomatal,
composed of a few globose, dark brown cells.
Conidiophores 56–213 × 4–5.5 μm, 5–16 in
loose fascicles, 4–7-septate, arise through
stromata, straight, smooth, brown at the base,
paler toward the apex, unbranched, cylindrical,
slightly geniculate. Conidiogenous cells integrated,
holoblastic, polyblastic, sometimes
monoblastic, terminal, sympodially proliferating.
Conidiogenous loci 2–3 μm diam.,
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