A disease causing leaf spot and defoliation on Cedrela odorata trees planted in an Embrapa experimental area near Manaus, Brazil, is first reported here. Lesions start as yellow halos surrounding small light-brown points. Later, necrotic brown lesions are observed exhibiting many black small structures in the central portion, corresponding to fructifications of Pseudobeltrania cedrelae and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. When P. cedrelae was inoculated the leaf disease was reproduced.
Colletotrichum gloeosporioides; tree defoliation; new disease
