Paracercosporidium microsorum

Capnodiales • Dothideomycetes • Ascomycota • fungi • plant diseases • pests-diseases-weeds

Paracercosporidium microsorum - A+B) symptoms, F) culture, C-E + G-I) conidiophores and conidia (click on image to enlarge it)
Authors: S.I.R. Videira, J.Z. Groenewald, C. Nakashima, U. Braun, R.W. Barreto, P.J.G.M. de Wit, and P.W. Crous
Source: Studies in Mycology (2017), vol. 87 p. 320

Paracercosporidium microsorum symptoms on Tilia cordata (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Andrej Kunca, National Forest Centre - Slovakia
Source: IPM Images

Paracercosporidium microsorum (Sacc.) U. Braun, C. Nakash., Videira & Crous 2017

This fungus is widely distributed and causes a leaf spot disease on lime trees (Tilia). The conidia are formed singly and are hyaline to pale brown, truncate at the base and rounded at the tip. Their size and the number of septa is rather variable (Videira et al., 2017).

Synonyms:
Cercospora microsora
Mycosphaerella microsora
Passalora microsora

Publications covering Paracercosporidium microsorum

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

Nachrichtenblatt des Deutschen Pflanzenschutzdienstes (1999) 51, 1-4
H. Butin and R. Kehr (1999)
Blattkrankheiten der Linde
[Leaf diseases of lime tree]