Verticillium sp.

Verticillium sp.


Colonies are fast growing, suede-like to downy, white to pale yellow in colour, becoming pinkish brown, red, green or yellow with a colourless, yellow or reddish brown reverse. Conidiophores are usually well differentiated and erect, verticillately branched over most of their length, bearing whorls of slender awl-shaped divergent phialides. Conidia are hyaline or brightly coloured, mostly one-celled, and are usually borne in slimy heads (glioconidia).

Conidiophores, phialides and conidia of Verticillium sp.
Clinical significance:

Members of this genus are often isolated from the environment. It has been reported as a rare agent of mycotic keratitis.

Mycosis: Hyalohyphomycosis
Further reading:

Domsch, K.H., W. Gams, and T.H. Anderson. 1980. Compendium of soil fungi. Volume 1. Academic Press, London, UK.

Rippon, J.W. 1988. Medical Mycology. 3rd Edition. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, USA.

REF: http://www.mycology.adelaide.edu.au/Fungal_Descriptions/Hyphomycetes_(hyaline)/Verticillium/ Acessado em 12/06/12