| Affiliation: | (1) Department of International Agricultural Development, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 156-8502, Japan;(2) Biotechnology Development Center (NBDC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan;(3) Shizuoka Tea Experiment Station, Kurasawa, Kikugawa, Ogasa, Shizuoka, Japan |
| Abstract: | In the course of a survey on plant diseases and their pathogenic fungi in the Nansei Islands, some noteworthy fungi were collected. Among them, four fungi newly found in Japan were described with some mycological and pathological notes. These species are Septoria gardeniae Savelli, causing circular leaf spot of Gardenia; Phyllosticta cordylinophila Young apud Stevens, causing brown leaf spot of Cordyline; Phyllosticta drummondii Vanef et van der Aa, causing brown needle blight of Araucaria; and Phyllachora minuta Hennings, causing tar spot of Hibiscus. |
