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Methodology: Twelve plantation sites were purposivly sampled and surveyed in Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia from May-June, 2016 for disease symptoms. Samples with clear diseases symptoms were collected cut to desired size, surface sterilized and cultured on the potato dextrose agar media for morphological study. Twenty pure cultures of fungi colonies were isolated and morphologically characterized to genus and species level for identification. The collected data were summarized, ranked and expressed using simple descriptive statistics of SPSS version 16.0 and SAS Version 9.0 procedures. Results: Based on the results, among the isolates 60% (12 out of 20) isolates were with long chains or solitary, unicellular or multicellular, alternarioid chlamydospores while the rest of isolates were with milky conidia, two oil droplets inside, oozing in characteristic shape from dark pyinida and without chlamydospores. 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