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One hundred and twenty sites, from six localities from the Sudan Gezira were examined for soil mycoflora. The lower fungi were mostly represented by mucoraceous genera, such as Rhizopus, Mucor and Cunninghamella. Oomycetes were rare. Ascomycetes, other than the perfect states of Aspergillus, were not common. Only Chaetomium globosum was isolated from the six localities. Monascus, Thermoascus, Neocosmospora and Pyronema were recorded for the first time from Sudanese soils. The majority of the isolates were Hyphomycetes. The bulk of the fungal population were species of Aspergillus, of which A. niger was the most common, followed by A. terreus, A. flavus, A. nidulans and A. fumigatus. Other Aspergilli were sporadic. A. niveus and A. sejunctus were not previously reported from Sudanese soil.
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Amin, E.N.E., Abdalla, M.H. Survey of soil fungi from the Sudan Gezira. Mycopathologia 71, 131–136 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00473058
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