FIGURE 2 in Knufia aspidiotus sp. nov., a new black yeast from scale insects

FIGURE 2. Morphology of Knufia aspidiotus, CGMCC3.15211. a. Black, dry, hard colony after 2 months on PDA. b. Catenated, moniliform hyphae. c. Solitary, enlarged, darkly pigmented multicellular body with a transverse septum and a longitudinal septum. d. Endoconidia in undifferentiated hyphae. e–f. Sympodial, lateral blastic conidia, contributing to branching of hyphae. g–i. Holoblastic conidia with multiseptate. h. Holoblastic conidia in undifferentiated hyphae. j. Holoblastic conidia formed by yeast-like budding. Scale bar: b–j 10 µm.