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Plant Pathology & Quarant<strong>in</strong>e<br />

Fig. 60 – L<strong>in</strong>e draw<strong>in</strong>gs of <strong>Cercospora</strong> coffeicola on Coffea arabica. a. Conidia. b. Conidiophores<br />

<strong>and</strong> stromata. Bars = 50 μm. (Meeboon 2009).<br />

Distribution – Widely distributed, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />

American Samoa, Angola, Australia, Brazil,<br />

Brunei, Cambodia, Ch<strong>in</strong>a, Colombia, Congo,<br />

Costa Rica, Cuba, Dom<strong>in</strong>ican Republic, E1<br />

Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, French<br />

Polynesia, Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon,<br />

Ghana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,<br />

India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan,<br />

Kenya, Laos,n Madagascar, Malawi, Mart<strong>in</strong>ique,<br />

Mauritius, Micronesia, Mosambique,<br />

Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Nigeria,<br />

Panama, Papua New Gu<strong>in</strong>ea, Peru, Philipp<strong>in</strong>es,<br />

Puerto Rico, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Somalia,<br />

South Africa, Sudan, Sur<strong>in</strong>ame, Taiwan,<br />

Tanzania, <strong>Thail<strong>and</strong></strong>, Togo, Tr<strong>in</strong>idad <strong>and</strong><br />

Tobago, Ug<strong>and</strong>a, USA, Vanuatu, Venezuela,<br />

Yemen, Zimbabwe (Crous & Braun 2003).<br />

Notes – <strong>Cercospora</strong> coffeicola was first<br />

reported from <strong>Thail<strong>and</strong></strong> by Sontirat et al. (1980).<br />

Literature – Chupp (1954, p. 493-494).<br />

Saururaceae<br />

<strong>Cercospora</strong> houttuyniicola Goh & W.H. Hsieh,<br />

Bot. Bull. Acad. S<strong>in</strong>. Taipei 30: 118 (1989).<br />

(= C. apii s. lat.) Fig. 61<br />

Leaf spots 5–25 mm diam., amphigenous,<br />

clustered, irregular, dark brown to blackish,<br />

<strong>with</strong> dark reddish marg<strong>in</strong>s. Caespituli amphigenous.<br />

Stromata 13–43 μm diam., substomatal,<br />

small to well-developed, <strong>and</strong> composed of 5–6,<br />

globose to subglobose, brown to blackish<br />

brown cells. Conidiophores 47.5–176 × 3–4.5<br />

μm, 5–11 <strong>in</strong> loose fascicules, 1–3-septate,<br />

aris<strong>in</strong>g through stomata, straight, cyl<strong>in</strong>drical,<br />

smooth, brown at the base, paler toward the<br />

apex, unbranched, mostly not geniculate, sometimes<br />

slightly geniculate. Conidiogenous cells<br />

<strong>in</strong>tegrated, term<strong>in</strong>al, holoblastic, monoblastic,<br />

sympodially proliferat<strong>in</strong>g. Conidiogenous loci<br />

2–3.5 μm diam., conspicuous, thickened <strong>and</strong><br />

darkened. Conidia 27–99 × 2–5 μm, solitary,<br />

acicular, straight to curve at the apex, hyal<strong>in</strong>e,<br />

7–12-septate, smooth, obconically truncate at<br />

the base, taper<strong>in</strong>g toward a acute apex, hila 2–3<br />

μm diam., thickened <strong>and</strong> darkened.<br />

Specimens exam<strong>in</strong>ed – THAILAND,<br />

Chiang Mai Prov<strong>in</strong>ce, Chiang Mai University,<br />

on leaves of Houttuynia cordata Thunb.<br />

(Saururaceae), 6 December 2006, Ikumitsu<br />

Araki (CMU 27907); ibid 19 July 2007, Jamjan<br />

Meeboon <strong>and</strong> Iman Hidayat (BBH 23737).<br />

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