Fig. 3

Mycological findings. ab Fungal culture incubated at 26 °C on Sabouraud’s dextrose agar grew white to grey and velvety colony at 4 weeks and turned brown at 8 weeks. c Lactophenol cotton blue stain of slides culture revealed filamentous and septate hyphae with intercalary and ballooned, chlamydospore-like structures, as well as annellidic and ampulliform conidiogenous cells along with truncated, bullet-shaped, smooth conidia (original magnification ✕ 1000). d Black fruits under microscopy showed globose perithecium with cylindrical necks, and a dark peridium, which are composed of dark brown cells (original magnification ✕ 200)