All the sixteen isolates showed hyaline and short conidiophores bearing single hyaline cylindrical conidia. The conidia measured 14.7 µm x 7.1 µm with a centrally placed oil globule. These characters agreed with the original descriptions given by Lemme and Sonoda [31] and Sutton [32]. Das Gupta [33] also reported the variation in the spore size (17.36-21.8 µm x 2.66-2.88 µm) among the isolates of C. capsici causing anthracnose of betelvine. The average size of the spores however, did not vary among the isolates. Chakrabarty et al. [34] reported that in C. lindemuthianum also the average size of the spores did not vary much among the isolates. Nandinidevi [10] reported that the conidiophores were hyaline and septate bearing ovoid to cylindrical conidia which were one celled with one or two oil globules, measuring 22.5 x 10 µm. Quimio and Quimio [35] found differences in the degree of virulence of eleven C. gloeosporioides isolates of mango and it was further reported that the conidial size was 12.0-
17.0 x 3.5-6.0 µm. C. gloeosporioides isolates obtained from apple, peach, pecan and other hosts varied greatly in their growth, virulence and conidial size [36].