Figure 1. Total number of Aspergillus spp. isolated from mangrove soil and leaf litters

Table 1. Average growth rate of Aspergillus species on different media

Species name	Average growth rate (cm/day)
	MEA	CYA	CY20S	CZ
A. flavipes A. fumigatus A. terreus A. carneus A. clavatus	0.55 ± 0.03c 0.80 ± 1.00d 0.45 ± 0.01b 0.71 ± 0.06b 0.84 ± 0.00d	0.76 ± 0.04d 0.73 ± 0.05c 0.48 ± 0.01ab 0.73 ± 0.02b 0.78 ± 0.02c	0.28 ± 0.05a 0.53 ± 0.03a 0.37 ± 0.01a 0.36 ± 0.01a 0.46 ± 0.04a	0.32 ± 0.02ab 0.64 ± 0.02b 0.47 ± 0.01b 0.75 ± 0.02b 0.55 ± 0.03b

Mean ± Standard deviation. For each medium, values in a row followed by the same letter

indicate no significant difference in growth rate by Tukey’s test.

C

Figure 2. (A-B) Colonies of A. flavipes on CYA and MEA at 25°C. (C) Vesicle shape subglobose; biseriate x 40; long phialides;

spathulate to subglobose vesicles; conidia varies from globose and smooth walled

C

Figure 3. (A-B) Aspergillus terreus on PDA and CYA at 25°C; Colony surface- white mycelia with sandy brown spores.

(C) Conidial heads- splitting into divergent column; Vesicles suglobose with biseriate sterigmata x 100.

Figure 4. (A) Aspergillus clavatus on MEA at 25°C produced yellow pigment; (c) swollen hyphal structures

(b) bearing long conidiophores (3-5 cm); clavate shaped vesicles; conidia smooth walled, ellipsoidal x 100.

Figure 5. (A) Aspergillus carneus on CYA and MEA are similar (B) reddish sclerotia on MEA only

(C) subglobose vesicles; biseriate; conidia smooth walled and subglobose to globose x100.

A

Figure 6. (A) Aspergillus fumigatus on CYA at 25°C (B) spores white to dark greenish in color

(C) radiate shaped vesicles; uniseriate; conidia smooth and subglobose in shape x100.