Cladophialophora Coccidioides sp. Dermatophytes Epicoccum spp. Zygomycetes Verticillium spp. Description Colonies are rapid growing, spreading, velvety to cottony, white, green, yellow, red, or pinkish brown in color. Microsclerotia are often present.
Conidiophores are erect, hyaline to pigmented, simple, or branched.
The branching occurs in whorls at several levels. Phialides are lageniform, hyaline, and arise in whorls at the apices of the branches or along the conidiophores. Conidia are 1-celled, hyaline, ovoid to allantoid, occurring as balls at the apices of the phialides. Verticillium differs from Acremonium by having whorls of phialides and branches. The phialides arise in whorls, upon which balls of conidia accumulate at their apices.