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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.