Intensive investigations
on the Colletotrichum population in coffee were carried
out by Hindorf [16–18] and three distinct species occurring
in association with CBD on coffee berries were described as (1)
the CBD-causing species C. coffeanum growing with black colour
on artificial Malt-Extract Agar, (2) C. acutatum with pink
colour in vitro and (3) C. gloeosporioides producing symptoms
only on ripe berries as the so-called late blight and a perfect
stage of Glomerella cingulata [