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<strong>Cladosporium</strong> herbarum species complex<br />

Fig. 15. <strong>Cladosporium</strong> herbaroides (CPC 12052). A. Overview of the growth characteristics of this fungus. Broad hyphae run over the surface of the agar, <strong>and</strong> possibly give rise<br />

to conidiophore branches. <strong>The</strong> conidiophores of this fungus can be rather long, resembling aerial hyphae. Clusters of conidia are clearly visible in this micrograph. B. <strong>The</strong> very<br />

wide surface hyphae can anastomose. C. Conidiophore with secondary ramoconidia <strong>and</strong> conidia. Note the variation in scar size. D. A very elaborate, complex conidiophore with<br />

different scars of variable size, one being more than 2 μm wide! E. Details of secondary ramoconidia <strong>and</strong> hila. Note the rather strong ornamentation in which smaller “particles”<br />

are between larger ones. F. Three conidia in a row. Note the scar formation in the chain <strong>and</strong> the reduction of the size of the cells throughout the spore-chain. <strong>The</strong> inset shows<br />

the resemblance of the scars on a conidiophore <strong>and</strong> on a secondary ramoconidium. Scale bars: A = 50 µm, B–C, F (inset) = 10 µm, D–E = 5 µm, F = 2 µm.<br />

Ascomata pseudothecial, black, globose, erumpent to superficial,<br />

up to 200 µm diam, with 1(–3) short, periphysate ostiolar necks;<br />

wall consisting of 3–6 layers of medium red-brown textura<br />

angularis. Asci fasciculate, bitunicate, subsessile, obovoid to<br />

broadly ellipsoid, straight to slightly curved, 8-spored, 65–85 × 13–<br />

17 µm. Pseudoparaphyses absent in host material, but remnants<br />

observed when studied in culture, hyaline, septate, subcylindrical,<br />

anastomosing, 3–4 µm wide. Ascospores tri- to multiseriate,<br />

overlapping, hyaline, with irregular luminar inclusions, thickwalled,<br />

straight to slightly curved, fusoid-ellipsoidal with obtuse<br />

ends, widest near middle of apical cell, medianly 1-septate, not to<br />

slightly constricted at the septum, tapering towards both ends, but<br />

more prominently towards the lower end, (17–)20–23(–25) × (6–)<br />

7(–8) µm; becoming brown <strong>and</strong> verruculose in asci. Ascospores<br />

germinating after 24 h on MEA from both ends, with spore body<br />

becoming prominently constricted at the septum, but not distorting,<br />

up to 7 µm wide, hyaline to pale brown <strong>and</strong> appearing somewhat<br />

verruculose, enclosed in a mucoid sheath, with germ tubes being<br />

irregular, somewhat nodular.<br />

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