Bipolaris sacchari (Japanese Fungi on Plants)

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Bipolaris sacchari (Butler) Shoem.
Classification: Deuteromycotina, Hyphomycetes

Distributed south from Kyushu, the southern part of Japan. Causing eye spot on sugarcane and also isolated from other gramineous plants. Disperse by scattering conidia. Teleomorph unknown.

Characteristics: Plant pathogen

		Morphology: Teleomorph: Unknown Anamorph: On olive brown to dark olive brown conidiophores, producing conidia straight or curved, pale brown to yellowish brown, cylindrical to narrow ellipsoidal, 35-96 x 9-17 um, with 5-9 pseudosepta.
Conidia

Herbarium specimen in NIAES None

(Described by Tsukiboshi, T., NIAES, Microbial Systemtics Lab., 2002)