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