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Verticillium species


• Stain: Lactophenol Aniline Blue

• Magnification: x1000


Structure: Hylaine simple or branched conidiophores, long narrow hyaline phialides grouped in verticils, hyaline unicellular ovoid to pyriform conidia (sometimes conidia stick at the tips of phialides).

Compare structure with Acremonium species.

 

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