Name of Isolate and reference plate | Colony morphology (obverse) | Colony morphology (reverse) | Structure of phialides | Frequency n (%) |
Plate (b). Aspergillus flavus | Light green powdery colony | Cream-yellow | Biseriate phialides and aerial hyphae with rough, spiny conidiophores | 12 (23%) |
Plate (d). Aspergillus niger | Black with white margin | Cream-white | Biseriate phialides covering entire vesicle forming radiate head | 8 (15%) |
Plate (a). Aspergillus fumigatus | Velvety, white, dark greenish | Cream white | Uniseriate phialides covering upper two thirds of vesicle. | 6 (11%) |
Plate (j). Mucor racemosus | White powdery colony | Cream white | Aerial hyphae bearing conidiophores | 4 (8%) |
Plate (e). Aspergillus terreus | Velvety, cinnamon brown | Whitish brown | Compact fan-shaped heads with metulae, phialides, and upright conidiophore | 5 (9%) |
Plate (f). Aspergillus candidus | White | Orange yellow | Intact sporing head with metulae and phialides, over the entire vesicle | 2 (4%) |
Plate (g). Penicillium spp. | Bluish green, white margin, exudates present, raised with radial furrows | Creamish yellow | Branching, flask shaped conidiophores with metulae | 5 (9%) |
Plate (i). Paecilomyces variotii | Yellowish brown | Pale brown | Long slender phialides appearing singly along hyphae | 5 (9%) |
Plate (c). Aspergillus vesicolor | Greenish yellow | Orange yellow | Biseriate, loosely radiate phialides covering entire vesicle | 3 (6%) |
Plate (h.) Scedosporium aspiospermum | White cottony aerial mycelia | Greyish black | Septate hyphae with short conidiophores bearing condia singley | 3 (6%) |
Total number of isolates |
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| 53 (16%) |