| Name of species. | Microscopic characteristic | Growh on SDA | Growth on rice meal agar | Carbohydrate fermentation test. | CHROM Agar test | ||||||||
| Morphology | Gram’s stain | Germ tube test | Presence of blasto- conidia | Presence of pseudo- hyphe | Chlymydospores | Glu | Mal | Suc | Lac | Gal | According to color | ||
| C. albicans | Spherical to budding | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | − | − | + | Light-green |
| C. tropicals | Spherical to budding | + | − | + | + | + | − | + | + | ± | - | + | Dark-blue |
| C. krusei | Small to ovoid | + | − | + | + | + | − | + | − | − | − | − | Pale-pink |
| C. glabrata | Ovoid to bud | + | − | + | + | − | − | + | − | − | − | − | White-pink |