Colonies on PDA white to grey and black with cottony fluffy growth, reverse light avcllancous or orange; condidiophores poorly differentiated micronematous or semi-macronematous mononematous straight or flexuous, hyaline, smooth 1.1 — 2.2 fxm wide; conidiogenous cells monoblastic, terminal, cylindrical, smooth and hyaline for most part and rough as they reach the conidia 5.0—22.0x2.2 — 4.4 um (mostly up to 16.5 and occasionally 26.5 um); conidia solitary, acrogenous, ovate, elliptical, clavate, rarely round, rounded at the apex, narrowed to a truncate base, dark olive brown, thickwalled, verrucose, 1 — 2 septate, sometimes 3—4 septate; predominantly two septate conidia observed and they comprise 80% of conidial production, single septate conidia being 18% and three to four septate being 2% (Fig. 1).

Isolated from kernels of Arachis hypogaea L. cv TMV-3, 3-1-1973, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, leg. V. KAVINDRA NATH, CMI No. 205718 (Type).