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Cladophialophora bantiana
(Xylohypha bantiana)

• Stain: Lactophenol Aniline Blue

• Magnification: x400


Structure: Septate brown hyphae, poorly branched, strongly coherent, long chains of unicellular pale olivacious ellipsoidal to fusiform conidia, conidiophores not differentiated much from vegetative hyphae.

 

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