Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Phyllosticta caricicola Sacc. & Scalia; Sacc. Harriman
Alaska Exp. Crypt. 21. 1904.
Spots becoming dry, indefinite in outline, mostly on the under side of the leaf; pycnidia 57
minute, black, globose-depressed, reaching a diameter of 50-80 M , loosely arranged in rows,
the walls composed of polyhedral cells, 6-8 ju in diameter; spores oblong-bacilliform, 0.5 X 4-5 /z.
On Cyperacbae:
Car ex sp., Alaska. Type locality: Orca, Alaska, on Car ex sp. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- Fred Jay Seaver. 1922. PHYLLOSTICTALES; PHYLLOSTICTACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 6(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
