Neocercospora M. Bakhshi, Arzanlou

Bakhshi, Mounes, Arzanlou, Mahdi, Babai-Ahari, Asadollah, Groenewald, Johannes Z. & Crous, Pedro W., 2015, Is morphology in Cercospora a reliable reflection of generic affinity?, Phytotaxa 213 (1), pp. 22-34 : 28

Neocercospora M. Bakhshi, Arzanlou , Babai-ahari & Crous, gen. nov. MycoBank MB 812284

Foliicolous and caulicolous, phytopathogenic. Mycelium internal. Stromata substomatal, weakly to moderately developed, brown. Caespituli amphigenous, punctiform, brown. Conidiophores aggregated in loose to moderately dense fascicles, arising from the upper cells of substomatal to intraepidermal brown stromata; conidiophores aseptate, reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells unbranched, pale brown to brown, smooth, subcylindrical to cone-shaped, wider at the base, unito multilocal, sympodial, subdenticulate; loci conspicuous, thickened, darkened, somewhat refractive, apical or formed on shoulders caused by geniculation. Conidia solitary or catenate, in unbranched chains, hyaline, smooth, guttulate or not, cylindrical, subcylindrical to obclavate-cylindrical, straight to slightly curved, septate; hilum flattened, moderately thickened, darkened and somewhat refractive.

Type species:— Neocercospora ammicola M. Bakhshi, Arzanlou , Babai-ahari & Crous. Etymology: — New genus resembling Cercospora in morphology.