Nigrospora spp.

A common outdoor mold, Nigrospora has a readily identifiable spore that can easily be found on an Air-O-Cell Cassette sample and identified easily in fungal culture.  The good sized oval shaped spore is perched atop a very short conidiophore. 



Nigrospora spp.  line drawings - N. Carlson

Nigrospora spp. growth in culture. - N. Carlson

Nigrospora spp. growth 400x (10 to 12.5 microns wide) - N. Carlson 

Interesting angle showing the underside of a Nigrospora spp. conidia attached.  - N. Carlson