Trichocomaceae
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| Trichocomaceae | |
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| Culture of Penicillium purpurogenum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Eurotiales |
| Family: | Trichocomaceae E. Fisch. |
| Type genus | |
| Trichocoma Jungh |
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Trichocomaceae is a family of the order Eurotiales. Taxa are saprobes with aggressive colonization strategies, adaptable to extreme environmental conditions. Family members are cosmopolitan in distribution, ubiquitous in soil and very common associates of decaying plant and food material. The family contains some of the most familiar fungi, such as Penicillium and Aspergillus.
[edit] Genera
- Aspergillus
- Byssochlamys
- Chaetosartorya
- Chaetotheca
- Chromocleista
- Cristaspora
- Dichotomomyces
- Edyuillia
- Emericella
- Erythrogymnotheca
- Eupenicillium
- Eurotium
- Fennellia
- Hemicarpenteles
- Neocarpenteles
- Neosartorya
- Paecilomyces
- Penicilliopsis
- Penicillium
- Petromyces
- Sagenoma
- Talaromyces
- Thermoascus
- Trichocoma
- Warcupiella
- mitosporic Trichocomaceae
[edit] References
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- Cannon PF, Kirk PM. (2007). Fungal Families of the World. CABI: Singapore. 456 pp.
- Pitt JL, Samson RA, Frisvad JC. (2000). List of accepted species and their synonyms in the family Trichocomaceae. Integration of Modern Taxonomic Methods for Penicillium and Aspergillus Classification (Amsterdam): 9–49.
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