Addition and re-examination of Japanese species belonging to the genus Cercospora and allied genera. X: newly recorded species from Japan (5)

Abstract

Cercospora yakushimensis is proposed as a new combination, Pseudocercospora yakushimensis comb. nov.,and the morphology of the species is characterized from herbarium specimens, including the type. Six additional species belonging to the genus Cercospora and its allied genera are newly added to the Japanese mycoflora, namely,Cercospora dioscoreae-pyrifoliae on Dioscorea tokoro,Pseudocercospora catalpigena on Catalpa ovata, Pseudocercospora coriariae on Coriaria japonica, Pseudocercos pora lythri on two species of Lythrum, Pseudocercospora pteroceltidis on Celtis boninensis, and Passalora puncta on Foeniculum vulgare.