Conidiophore structures:
Figs 1-2. Conidiophores long or frequently branched.
Fig. 3. Conidiophores short and or not infrequently branched.
Scale bars = 10µm
Phialide types:
Fig. 4. Adelophialide (shortest, having no basal septum).
Fig. 5. Type II phialide (medium-sized and elongate-ampulliform to navicular in shape).
Fig. 6. Type III phialide (long and subcylindrical, navicular to subulate in shape).
Scale bar = 10µm
Phialide shapes:
Figs 7-11. Phialide shapes include: elongate-ampulliform attenuated at the base (7), elongate-ampulliform constricted at the base (8), subcylindrical (9), navicular (10) and subulate(11).
Scale bars = 10µm
Conidial shapes:
Care need to be taken to make slide preparations from aerial mycelium.
Figs 12-17. Conidial shapes include: oblong-elliptical (12), obovate (13), cylindrical (14), reniform (15), allantoid (16) and fusiform-elliptical (17). The first five shapes are the most predominant occurring conidial shapes.
(Hawksworth, D. L., P. M. Kirk, B. C. Sutton, and D. N. Pegler. 1996. Ainsworth and Bisby's Dictionary of Fungi, Eighth ed. University Press, Cambridge.)
Warts:
Warts are exudates droplets, perceived as wart-like structures under the light microscope.
Fig. 19. Large warts on mycelium of Phaeoacremonium. parasiticum (CBS860.73).
Fig. 20. Smaller warts of mycelium of Phaeoacremonium alvesii (CBS110034).
Scale bars = 10µm
Mycelium texture:
Mycelium texture refers to the ornamentation on mycelium.
Fig. 21. Verrucose (roughly textured) mycelium of Phaeoacremonium krajdenii (CBS109479).
Fig. 22. Verruculose (lightly textured) mycelium of Phaeoacremonium subulatum (CBS113584).