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Cercospora fuchsiae
Scientific 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)

Cercospora fuchsiae is a fungal plant pathogen.

Description

• 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.

References

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

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