How to identify Fungi ???

Table-1: Colonial morphology of common molds (Fungi)

S. no.	Fungi	Colony morphology
1.	Penicillium	Bluish-green; brush arrangement of phialospores.
2.	Aspergillus	Bluish-green with sulfur-yellow areas on the surface. Aspergillus niger is black.
3.	Scopulariopsis	Light brown; rough-walled microconidia.
4.	Trichoderma	Green, resemble Penicillium macroscopically.
5.	Gliocadium	Dark green; conidia (phialospores) borne on phialides, similar to Penicillium; grows faster than Penicillium.
6.	Cladosporium (Hormodendrum)	Light green to grayish surface; gray to black back surface; blastoconidia.
7.	Pleospora	Tan to green surface with brown to black back; ascospores shown are produced in sacs borne within brown, flask-shaped fruiting bodies called pseudothecia.
8.	Scopulariopsis	Light brown; rough-walled microconidia.
9.	Paecilomyces	Yellowish-brown; elliptical microconidia.
10.	Alternaria	Dark greenish-black surface with gray periphery; black on reverse side; chains of macroconidia.
11.	Bipolaris	Black surface with grayish periphery; macroconidia shown.
12.	Pullularia	Black, shiny, leathery surface; thick walled; budding spores.
13.	Diplosporium	Buff-colored wooly surface; reverse side has red center surrounded by brown.
14.	Oospora (Geotrichum)	Buff-colored surface;hyphae break up into thin-walled rectangular arthrospores.
15.	Fusarium	Variants of yellow, orange, red, and purple colonies; sickle-shaped macroconidia.
16.	Trichothecium	White to pink surface; two-celled conidia.
17.	Mucor	A zygomycete; sporangia with a slimy texture; spores with dark pigment.
18	Rhizopus	A zygomycete; spores with dark pigment.
19.	Syncephalastrum	A zygomycete; sporangiophores bear rod-shaped sporangioles, each containing a row of spherical spores.
20.	Nigrospora	Conidia black, globose, one-celled, borne on a flattened, colorless vesicle at the end of a conidiophore.
21.	Montospora	Dark gray center with light gray periphery; yellow-brown conidia.

Figure-1: Microscopic appearance of some of the more common molds

Figure-2: Colony characteristics of some of the more common molds

Source:

Benson. 2001 Microbiological Applications Laboratory Manual in General Microbiology, Eighth Edition, the McGraw-Hill Companies.