Pseudocercospora handelii (Bubák) Deighton 1987

Details

Name scientific

Pseudocercospora handelii (Bubák) Deighton, Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 88 390 (1987)

Preferred name

Chuppomyces handelii (Bubák) U. Braun, C. Nakash., Videira & Crous 2017

Taxonomy reference

Videira, S.I.R.; Groenewald, J.Z.; Nakashima, C.; Braun, U.; Barreto, R.W.; de Wit, P.J.G.M.; Crous, P.W. 2017: Mycosphaerellaceae – Chaos or clarity?. Studies in Mycology 87: 257-421.

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Deighton

Original authors

Bubák

Authors

(Bubák) Deighton

Publication place

Deighton, F.C. 1987: New species of Pseudocercospora and Mycovellosiella, and new combinations into Pseudocercospora and Phaeoramularia. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 88(3): 365-391.

Year published

1987

Publication page

390

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Cercospora handelii Bubák 1909

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Pseudocercospora handelii

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Dothideomycetes

Order

Capnodiales

Family

Mycosphaerellaceae

Genus

Pseudocercospora

Species

handelii

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Rhododendron

Bain, J. (2009)

has host

Rhododendron

Dingley, J.M. (1969)

has host

Rhododendron

Farr, D.F.; Bartolome Esteban, H.; Palm, M.E. (1996)

has host

Rhododendron

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)

has host

Rhododendron

McArthur, G.W.F.M. (1959)

has host

Rhododendron

Pennycook, S.R. (1989)

Descriptions

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) 2005: Fungi on trees and shrubs in New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. 4. Fungal Diversity Press.

Pseudocercospora handelii (Bubák) Deighton 1987

Description

Type: Foliicolous Fungi; Description: Mycelium internal. Hyphae aggregated to form substomatal stromata. Conidiophores arising from stromata emerging from stomata, straight or slightly curved, subhyaline, greenish-brown in mass, smooth, 0-septate, 30–135 × 2–4 em. Conidia filiform to obclavate, strongly curved to flexuous, 6–14-septate, 30–155 × 2–4 m, smooth, subhyaline. Leaf spots dark brown, angular, 3–20 mm in diameter, often confluent, covering large areas on both sides of the leaf, which becomes necrotic.

Distribution

Distribution: Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson.; 1st Record: McArthur (1959: as Cercospora handelii).

Notes

Pathogenicity

Significance: Recorded from only a few localities on the lower leaves of young plants (McArthur 1959).; Host(s): Rhododendron sp.