## 2 Results
### The Cultured Microbiome of A. fliculoides
The latter was present in 26% of epiphytes whilst endophytes displayed no such surface type. The dull/rough surface was the least common (8.6%); it was not observed for endophytes and only 12% of epiphytes were characterized by such a surface. We observed three types of colony texture: Butyrous (BUT), mucoid (MUC), and brittle (BRIT). The first type (BUT) was the most common in all microorganisms (67%) followed by MUC (19%) and BRIT (14%). A similar number was recorded for the epiphytes, whilst 73% of the endophytes had BUT and 27% MUC texture. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline
**No.** & **Type** & **Size 1** & **Form 2** & **Surface 3** & **Texture 4** & **Opacity 5** & **Pigmentation 6** & **Elevation 7** & **Margin 8** & **Gram** \\ \hline
27 & + & c & g/s & BUT & TRANS & w-c & F & Und & G+ \\
28 & + & i & g/s & BUT & OPQ & yel-org & R & Und & G+ \\
29 & - & c & g/s & BUT & TRANS & cream & U & Ent & G- \\
30 & + & c & g/r & BUT & OPQ & beige & R & Ent & G- \\
31 & + & c & d/s & MUC & IHD & beige & U & Ent & G- \\
32 & + & c & g/r & BUT & TRANS & beige & U & Ent & G- \\
33 & - & c & g/r & BUT & TRANS & beige & U & Ent & G- \\
34 & - & o & g/s & BUT & TRANS & cream & R & Ent & G- \\
35 & + & o & d/r & BRIT & OPQ & cream & F & Ent & G+ \\
36 & - & c & g/s & BUT & TRANS & cream & U & Ent & G+ \\
37 & +++ & f & g/s & BUT & TRANS & w-c & F & Fili & G+ \\
38 & - & c & g/s & MUC & OPQ & yellow & R & Ent & G+ \\
39 & + & c & g/s & MUC & TRANS & yellow & C & Ent & G- \\
40 & + & i & g/r & BUT & OPQ & cream & U & Ent & G- \\
41 & + & o & d/r & BUT & TRANS & cream & U & Ent & G+ \\
42 & +++ & o & d/s & BRIT & TRANS & beige & F & Ent & G+ \\
43 & +++ & o & d/s & BRIT & OPQ & beige & F & Und & G+ \\ \hline
1 & - & c & g/r & BUT & OPQ & beige & U & Ent & G+ \\
2 & - & c & g/s & BUT & TRANS & cream & R & Ent & G+ \\
3 & - & c & g/s & BUT & OPN & cream & R & Ent & G+ \\
4 & - & c & g/s & BUT & TRANS & w-c & R & Ent & G+ \\
5 & + & c & g/s & BUT & TRANS & w-c & R & Ent & G+ \\
6 & - & c & g/s & MUC & IRID & yellow & R & Ent & G+ \\
7 & - & c & g/s & BUT & IRID & yellow & R & Und & G+ \\
8 & - & c & g/s & MUC & OPQ & yellow & R & Ent & G+ \\
9 & + & c & g/s & BUT & OPQ & cream & R & Ent & G+ \\
10 & ++ & c & g/s & MUC & IRID & yellow & R & Ent & G+ \\
11 & ++ & c & g/s & MUC & OPQ & yellow & R & Ent & G+ \\
12 & +++ & c & g/s & BUT & TRANS & cream & R & Ent & G+ \\
13 & ++ & c & g/s & BUT & OPQ & white-cream & R & Ent & G+ \\
14 & ++ & i & g/s & BUT & OPQ & white-cream & F & Und & G- \\
15 & + & i & g/s & BUT & OPQ & white-cream & F & Und & G+ \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}  
* –punctiform, +—small, ++—moderate, +++—large; 2 Form: o—oval, c—circular, i—irregular, f—filamentous,
* d—dull, g—glistering, r—rough, s—smooth; 4 BUT—bytrous, MUC—mucoid, BRIT—brittle, 5 OPQ—opaque, TRANS—translucent, IRID—irregular; 6 w-c White-cream, yel-c: Yellow-cream, yel-org: Yellow-orange; 7—flat, R—rised, C—convex, U—umbonate; 8 Ent—entire, Und—undulate, Fili—filiform.  
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Table 2: _Cont._In terms of colony transparency, we divided the microorganisms into opaque (OPQ), translucent (TRANS), and iridescent (IRID). More than half or all microbes, both epi- and endophytes, produced non-transparent (OPQ) colonies whilst 40% were transparent (44% of epiphytes and 27% of endophytes). Opalescent color was observed in 9% of isolates (4.7% epi- and 20% of endophytes). The isolated microorganisms displayed two types of pigmentation--white-cream-beige (76%) (Figure 3a) and yellow-orange (24%) (Figure 3b). Similar numbers were recorded for the epiphytes, whilst 2/3 of the endophytes were included in the \"white group\" and 1/3 in the \"yellow group\". Deeper analysis within each group revealed cream pigmentation as the most abundant (36%, 40%, and 27% for all the microorganisms, epiphytes, and endophytes, respectively). Beige and white-cream colonies were observed in 34% isolates (equally distributed between these two pigments) and only 5% of the colonies were white.