September 2007 - Wadsworth Center

A. B.Figure 5. (A) Nine-day-old, white to cream colored powdery to granular colony of Chrysosporium sp. onSabouraud’s dextrose agar. (B) The reverse of nine-day-old Chrysosporium sp. colony on Sabouraud’sdextrose agarA. B.Figure 6. Microscopic morphology of Chrysosporium sp. showing hyaline septate hyphae. Ovoid or clubshapedconidia with broad truncated bases are seen either singly or in short chains borne directly on hyphaeor in short conidiophores (A: 200× magnification; B: line diagram not to scale).23