Penicillium

rugal folds

blue-green with white apron

rapid grower

Penicillium

rugal folds

white apron

rapid grower

Penicillium

hyaline saprophyte

spores commonly blue or green

Paecilomyces

Hyaline saprophyte

bowling pin, more seperated conidia

conidia in chains

Paecilomyces

Powdery

Yellow-brown

Scopulariopsis

Powdery with irregular rugal folds

Light brown/tan

Scopulariopsis

Hyaline saprophyte

conidia in chains

lemon shaped conidia; rough and spiny when mature

Scopulariopsis

Hyaline saprophyte

conidia in chains

rough, large, spiky conidia

Acremonium

Felt-like

Light colored/light yellow

pink reverse

Acremonium

Conidia in clusters 

"sticky rice"

tapered phialide with oblong conidia clusters at tip

Fusarium

pink to violet

Fusarium

Hyaline saprophyte

multi-septate banana/canoe shaped macroconidia

microconidia (resemble acremonium)

Gliocladium

Dark green, fills plate

begins white

Gliocladium

Hyaline saprobe

Conidiophores and phialides with clumps of conidia forming large ball

Trichoderma

Initially white and wooly

Turns green with age

rapid grower, fills plate

Trichoderma

Hyaline saprobe

Conidia clusters arising directly from phialide

Sepedonium

White colony 

Turns yellow with age

Sepedonium

Hyaline saprobe

Conidia in singles

large, round, thick walled rough conidia

Sepedonium

Hyaline saprobe

Large round rough conidia in singles

Chrysosporium

Cottony or powdery

White to yellow

Chrysosporium

Hyaline saprobe

large, ovoid single conidia

'lollipop' look

Chrysosporium

Hyaline saprobe

large ovoid single conidia

'lollipop' look

Alternaria

Fluffy or wooly

gray to gray-brown, brown, or olive green

Dark reverse

Fairly rapid grower

Alternaria

Dematiaceous Saprophyte

large brown conidia with both transverse and longitudinal septations

bowling pin shape

Bipolaris

Gray or green to dark brown

Bipolaris

Dematiaceous saprobe

twisted conidiophores

smooth walled, multi-celled conidia with transverse septations

Bipolaris

Germ tubes

Germ tube formation from both ends of conidia at 25C when incubated in sterile saline overnight

Helminthosporium

Cottony

Dark gray to black

Helminthosporium

Dematiaceous saprobe

Conidia produced on side of conidiophore

Large, club shaped/bowling pin shaped with transverse septations

Cladosporium

Velvety

Greenish

Cladosporium

Dematiaceous saprobe

branched conidiophores with two or more conidial chains

site attachment shield shaped

Cladosporium

Dematiaceous saprobe

branched conidiophores with two or more conidial chains

site attachment shield shaped

Cladosporium

Dematiaceous saprobe

branched conidiophores with two or more conidial chains

site attachment shield shaped

Curvularia

Black or dark green

black reverse

Similar to Alternaria

Curvularia

Dematiaceous saprobe

curved, dark, multi-celled conidia

boomerang or bumble-bee shaped

Aureobasidium pullulans

Shiny and leathery with age

brown to black

grayish fringe

black shower mold

Aureobasidium pullulans

Dematiaceous saprobe

thick walled dark conidia

some produce hyaline daughter cells

Aureobasidium pullulans

Dematiaceous saprobe

thick walled dark conidia

some produce hyaline daughter cells

Stachybotrys

Cottony

Initially white - green to black with age

Stachybotrys

Dematiaceous saprobe

darkly pigmented conidiophores with 3-10 branched phialides

'Sick building syndrome'

Stachybotrys

Dematiaceous saprobe

darkly pigmented conidiophores with 3-10 branched phialides

'Sick building syndrome'

Penicillium

Hyaline saprophyte

-keratitis (inflammation of cornea)

-external ear infections

-endocarditis with valve protheses

Paecilomyces

Hyaline saprophyte

lab contaminant

-keratitis

-corneal ulcers

Scopulariopsis

Hylaine saprophyte

nail infections

environmental contaminant

conidia very rough and spiny (echinulate)

Acremonium

Hyaline saprophyte

mycetomas

corneal infections

nail infections (onychomycosis)

Fusarium

Hyaline saprophyte

mycotic eye infections

skin and nail infections

systemic infections in immunocompromised

Trichoderma

Hyaline saprophyte

conidia in clusters

Sepedonium

Hyaline saprophyte

contaminant

confused with Histoplasma capsulatum

Sepedonium

Hyaline saprophyte

contaminant

confused with Histoplasma capsulatum

Chrysosporium

Hyaline saprophyte

Environmental contaminant

toenail infections (rarely)

Similar to Blastomyces dermatitidis

Beauveria spp.

Cottony to powdery or mealy

White to yellowish white or pale pinkish

Reverse pale or white

Beauveria

Hyaline saprophyte

keratits and pneumonia in immunocompromised

globose conidia on flask shape conidiophore

Beauveria

Hyaline saprophyte

keratits and pneumonia in immunocompromised

globose conidia on flask shape conidiophore

Alternaria

Dematiaceous saprophyte

sinusitis, keratomycosis, onychomycosis, subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis

Bipolaris

sinusitis and phaeohyphomycosis

germ tubes formed when incubated in saline for 25C for 24 hours

Helminthosporium

Environmental contaminant

Non pathogenic

Cladosporium

subcutaneous chromoblastomycosis

keratitis

corneal ulcers

onychomycosis

Curvularia

Soil contaminant

mycetoma

sinusitis

keratitis

superficial, subcutaneous, pulmonary, and occasionally disseminated disease

Ulocladium

Dematiaceous saprophyte

light or dark septate hyphae

Conidia brown to black, smooth or rough,

round to oval or egg shaped

transverse and longitudinal septations

Aureobasidium pullulans

Dematiaceous saprophyte

black mold in showers

phaeophyphomycosis

Stachybotrys

Dematiaceous Saprophyte

Sick building syndrome