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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Cercosporoid fungi on statice (Limonium sinuatum) in Australia

A. R. McTaggart A and J. R. Liberato B C
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A Faculty of Biological & Chemical Sciences, School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Qld, Australia.

B Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Plant Pathology Herbarium, 80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Qld 4068, Australia.

C Corresponding author. Email: jose.liberato@dpi.qld.gov.au

Australasian Plant Disease Notes 1(1) 37-39 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN06016
Submitted: 11 October 2006  Accepted: 20 October 2006   Published: 25 October 2006

Abstract

All fourteen dried specimens of cercosporoid fungi on Limonium held in Australian herbaria have been re-examined. Only Cercospora apii s. lat. was found, which is described and illustrated. C. insulana is considered an exotic pathogen for Australia.


Acknowledgements

The authors express their thanks to Herbarium DAR for specimen loans, to Leif Forsberg (Department of Primary Industry & Fisheries) for courteously providing a picture and to Dr Roger Shivas (Herbarium BRIP) for helpful discussion.


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