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Ciferriella domingensis

Ciferriella domingensis Petr. & Cif., Annls mycol. 28(5/6): 409 (1930).

            = Pseudocercospora domingensis (Petr. & Cif.) Quaedvl., Verkley & Crous, Stud. Mycol. 75: 335 (2013).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 263446; Facesoffungi number: FoF09774, Fig. 1

Description: see Quaedvlieg et al. (2013).

Material examined: see Quaedvlieg et al. (2013).

 

Fig. 1 Ciferriella domingensis (NY 01048475, holotype; re-drawn from Fig. 15 Pseudocercospora domingensis in Quaedvlieg et al. 2013). a Conidia. b Conidiogenous cells. Scale bars: a, b = 10 μm.

 Importance and distribution

Ciferriella comprises only one species causing leaf spots on Vitex umbrosa (Lamiaceae) in Caribbean (Dominican Republic).

 

References 

Crous PW, Braun U, Hunter GC, Wingfield MJ et al. 2013 – Phylogenetic lineages in Pseudocercospora. Studies in Mycology 75, 37–114.

Crous PW, Braun U. 2003 – Mycosphaerella and its anamorphs: 1. Names published in Cercospora and Passalora. CBS Biodiversity Series No. 1. Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Quaedvlieg W, Verkley GJM, Shin HD, Barreto RW et al. 2013 – Sizing up Septoria. Studies in Mycology 75, 307–390.

Sutton BC. 1980 – The Coelomycetes: Fungi imperfecti with pycnidia, acervular and stromata. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey, England.

 

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