Fungi Flashcards
Sporothrix Schneckii
Cute little bunches of grapes on lateral phialides
Trichophyton rubrum
Barbed wire
Trichophyton interdigitale
Occasional spiral hyphae with spherical conidia
Trichophyton mentagrophytes
Grape-like clusters of ovoid conidia
Trichophyton verrucosum
Chains of single, ovoid conidia
Trichophyton tonsurans
Christmas tree
Microsporum canis
Large, 6 - 12 celled macroconidia
Microsporum audounii
Rarely any conidia; hyphae with occasional chlamydoconidia
Microsporum ferrucosum
Bamboo-like hyphae
Nannizia gypseum
4-6 celled macroconidia
Epidermophyton flocossum
Large, cigar-shaped macroconidia
Fonsacaea spp.
‘Devil-horn’ denticles
Phialophora spp.
Little flask-like philades with plates on top or swarms of conidia
Cladiophialophora carionii
Long, unbranching chains of ovoid conidia
Exophiala jeanselmi
Rocket-ships surrounded by conidia
Exophiala dermatitidis
Large amounts of slimy heads
Cladiophialophora bantianum
Long, branching chains of ovoid conidia
Bipolaris spp.
3 - 6 celled macroconidia
Aspergillus flavus
Dandelion heads
Aspergillus fumigatus
Phialides only covering the top two thirds of the vesicle; phialides oriented parallel to one another
Aspergillus niger
Large and darkly pigmented; dandelion head morphology
Rhizopus spp.
Rhizoid directly below
Mucor spp.
No rhizoid
Rhizomucor
Rhizoid off-set
