s/n | Fungi | Macroscopic feature | Microscopic feature |
1 | Aspergillus brevipes | Greyish green | Conidiophores hyaline, simple, ellipsoidally at the apex, bearing spore heads composed of catenulate conidia. |
2 | Aspergillus flavus | Lime green Texture is woolly to cotton | Conidiophore upright, simple terminating in a globose or clavate swelling, bearing phialides at the apex or radiating from the entire surface. |
3 | Aspergillus fumigatus | Light green | Conidiophore hyaline, simple, thin in cell wall, inflated clavately at the apex forming often nodded vesicles, bearing conidial heads. |
4 | Aspergillus niger | Initially white, quickly becoming black with conidial production | Conidiophore hyaline or pale brown, erect, simple, thick-walled, with foot cells basally. |
5 | Aspergillus parasiticus | Dark yellowish-green and velvety | Conidiophores erect, simple, rough in the surface, with foot cells basally inflated at the apex. |
6 | Mucor circinellioides | Yellowish-brown | Sporangiospores hyaline, simple, sporangium and chlamydospores produced singly and in short chains. |
7 | Mucor luteus | Initially white, turns to greyish brown with ageing | Sporangiophore and sporangium with collar, columella and sporangiospores. |
8 | Neurospora sp. | White colouration, rapid growth | Ascospores hyaline, simple, ellipsoidal, nearly smooth, germ pores disposed at the ends of the ascospores. |
9 | Rhizoctonia sp. | Deep brown | Club-shaped basidia with multiple apical sterigmata, oval, hyaline basidiospores. |
10 | Rhizopus sp. | Greyish white Texture is cotton-candy like | Sporangiospores hyaline, simple, smooth in the surface, Sporangia are round with flattened bases, located at the tip of the sporangiophores. |
11 | Rhizopus stolonifer | Rapid growth with white colouration | Ellipsoidal structure with rhizoid may be immature zygospore. |
12 | Trichoderma harzianum | Green colouration | Conidiophores hyaline, branched, and demonstrate a pyramidal arrangement; Conidia are unicellular, ellipsoidal, green in color, smooth walled. |