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Pathogen

Epicoccum nigrum

Overview

Scientific name

Epicoccum nigrum

Genus

Epicoccum

EPPO code

PHOMEC

Common name

Leaf spot of cereals

Synonyms

Epicoccum purpurascens

Description

From ISTA's ' Common Laboratory Seed Health Testing Methods for Detecting Fungi':

The fungus produces brown to black sporodochia, usually in groups. Sporodochia appear rough and granular, containing numerous small, brownish black, more of less spherical conidia on short and stout conidiophores, 15-25 μm. The conidial wall is verrucose to tubercular or areolate.