Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Japanese Fungi on Plants)

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Glomerella cingulata (Stoneman) Spaulding & Schrenk [=Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penzig) Penzig & Saccardo]
Classification: Ascomycota, Pyrenomycetes, Phyllachorales, Phyllachoraceae

Distributed widely in Japan. An omnivorous plant pathogen and causes anthracnose diseases in many plants. Produces perithecia and acervuli on the surface of leaves and disperses by scattering ascospores and conidia inside by wind and rain. The type species of the genus Glomerella and the anamorph is known as a typical complex species.

Characteristics: Plant pathogen Symptom: JPEG (Broadleaf dock, Anthracnose, 77kb)

				Morphology: Teleomorph: Ascocarp spherical to subspherical, producing unitunicate and cylindrical asci inside. Ascospores hyaline, single- celled, ellipsoidal to fusiform, 12-28~4-7 um. Anamorph: In acervuli, producing salmon-colored conidial mass. Conidia, single-celled, hyaline, cylindrical, 9-24 x 3-4.5 um in size. Apressorium brown, clavate to irregular-shaped, irregular in edge, 6-20 x 4-12 um in size. The morphology of the colony varies in wide ranges.
Ascocarp and asci	Conidia	Colony

Herbarium specimen in NIAES

Specimen No.	Scientific name	Host name	Host scientific name	Symptoms	Geographical origin	Collected date	Collector
135-1-35	Glomerella cingulata	Broadleaf dock	Rumex obtusifolius	Anthracnose	Fukagawa, Hokkaido	2002.8	Tsukiboshi, T.

(Described by Yoshida, S., NIAES, Microbial Systemtics Lab., 2002)