Symptoms

• Affect palms of all ages especially on outer whorls of mature leaves
• Burnt or dried appearance of outer whorls of leaves
• Reddish brown oval to irregular sunken lesions with dark brown margin on leaves
• Salmon or reddish brown fruitification of the fungus as dots on the affected leaves.
• Lesions coalesce resulting in leaf blight
• Disease progress to mid whorl of leaves causing premature drying and falling of leaves

Control Measures

• Remove and destroy severely affected leaves.
• Spray 1% Bordeaux mixture or Mancozeb 0.4% (4g/L) on outer and mid whorls of leaves at 45 days intervals.
• In severe case, spray 0.3% (3ml/L) tilt / contaf at monthly interval