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Mycosphaerella eumusae

species of fungus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2024
Entity authorityQ6947194 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mycosphaerella eumusae is a fungal disease of banana (Musa spp.), causing Eumusae leaf spot. Its symptoms are similar to black leaf streak (Black Sigatoka, ). M. eumusae is the predominant Mycospharella of banana in mainland Malaysia and in Thailand, and is present in Mauritius and Nigeria. Septoria eumusae is an anamorph of Mycosphaerella eumusae.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mycosphaerella eumusae” is species of fungus. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mycosphaerella, eumusae and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 54-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mycosphaerella, eumusae and species is the immediate research focus.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 19, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6947194. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mycosphaerella eumusae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.