Higher Classification: > Kingdom Fungi > Division Ascomycota > Subdivision Pezizomycotina > Class Eurotiomycetes > Subclass Eurotiomycetidae > Order Eurotiales > Family Trichocomaceae

Penicillium Link

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Penicillium aculeatum Raper & Fennell
Penicillium adametzii K.M. Zalessky
Penicillium adametzioides S. Abe ex G. Sm.
Penicillium albicans Bainier
Penicillium albidum Sopp
Penicillium alboaurantium G. Sm.
Penicillium arenicola Chalab.
Penicillium asperosporum G. Sm.
Penicillium atramentosum Thom
Penicillium atrovenetum G. Sm.
Penicillium aurantiocandidum Dierckx & Biourge
Penicillium aurantiogriseum Dierckx
Penicillium avellaneum Thom & Turesson
Penicillium bilaiae Chalab.
Penicillium brevicompactum Dierckx
Penicillium buchwaldii Frisvad & Samson
Penicillium camemberti Thom
Penicillium candidum Link
Penicillium canescens Sopp
Penicillium capsulatum Raper & Fennell
Penicillium carneolutescens G. Sm.
Penicillium casei W. Staub
Penicillium chermesinum Biourge
Penicillium chrysogenum Thom
Penicillium citreonigrum Dierckx
Penicillium citreoviride Biourge
Penicillium citrinum Thom
Penicillium coeruleoviride G. Sm.
Penicillium commune Thom
Penicillium corylophilum Dierckx
Penicillium crustosum Thom
Penicillium cyaneofulvum Biourge
Penicillium daleae K.M. Zalessky
Penicillium digitatum (Pers.) Sacc.
Penicillium diversum Raper & Fennell
Penicillium dodgei Pitt
Penicillium duclauxii Delacr.
Penicillium echinosporum G. Sm.
Penicillium echinulatum Raper & Thom ex Fassat.
Penicillium expansum Link
Penicillium fasciculatum Sommerf.
Penicillium fellutanum Biourge
Penicillium fennelliae Stolk
Penicillium frequentans Westling, 1911
Penicillium funiculosum Thom
Penicillium glabrum (Wehmer) Westling
Penicillium glaucum Link
Penicillium granulatum Bainier
Penicillium griseofulvum Dierckx
Penicillium griseolum G. Sm.
Penicillium griseopurpureum G. Sm.
Penicillium griseoroseum Dierckx
Penicillium herquei Bainier & Sartory
Penicillium hirsutum Sartory & Bainier
Penicillium hordei Stolk
Penicillium hypomycetis Sacc.
Penicillium ianthocitrinum Biourge
Penicillium implicatum Biourge
Penicillium islandicum Sopp
Penicillium italicum Wehmer
Penicillium janczewskii K.M. Zalessky
Penicillium janthinellum Biourge
Penicillium jensenii K.M. Zalessky
Penicillium klebahnii Pitt
Penicillium kojigenum G. Sm.
Penicillium lanosocoeruleum Thom
Penicillium lanosum Westling
Penicillium lapidosum Raper & Fennell
Penicillium lividum Westling
Penicillium loliense Pitt
Penicillium megasporum Orpurt & Fennell
Penicillium meleagrinum Biourge
Penicillium melinii Thom
Penicillium miczynskii K.M. Zalessky
Penicillium minioluteum Dierckx
Penicillium multicolor Grig.-Man. & Porad.
Penicillium nalgiovense Laxa
Penicillium namyslowskii K.M. Zalessky
Penicillium nodositatum Valla
Penicillium novae-zeelandiae J.F.H. Beyma
Penicillium olivicolor Pitt
Penicillium olivinoviride Biourge
Penicillium olsonii Bainier & Sartory
Penicillium oxalicum Currie & Thom
Penicillium patulum Bainier
Penicillium paxilli Bainier
Penicillium phoeniceum J.F.H. Beyma
Penicillium piceum Raper & Fennell
Penicillium pinophilum Hedgc.
Penicillium pulvillorum Turfitt
Penicillium purpurescens (Sopp) Biourge
Penicillium purpurogenum Stoll
Penicillium raciborskii K.M. Zalessky
Penicillium radulatum G. Sm.
Penicillium raistrickii G. Sm.
Penicillium raperi G. Sm.
Penicillium resticulosum Birkinshaw, Raistrick & G. Sm.
Penicillium restrictum J.C. Gilman & E.V. Abbott
Penicillium roqueforti Sopp
Penicillium roseopurpureum Dierckx
Penicillium rugulosum Thom
Penicillium scabrosum Frisvad, Samson & Stolk
Penicillium sclerotigenum T. Yamam.
Penicillium sclerotiorum J.F.H. Beyma
Penicillium simplicissimum (Oudem.) Thom
Penicillium solitum Westling
Penicillium spinulosum Thom
Penicillium spirillum Pitt
Penicillium sublateritium Biourge
Penicillium subtile Berk.
Penicillium sylvaticum Oudem.
Penicillium thomii Maire
Penicillium turolense C. Ramírez & A.T. Martínez
Penicillium udagawae Stolk & Samson
Penicillium vanbeymae Pitt
Penicillium variabile Sopp
Penicillium velutinum J.F.H. Beyma
Penicillium verrucosum Dierckx
Penicillium verruculosum Peyronel
Penicillium vinaceum J.C. Gilman & E.V. Abbott
Penicillium viridicatum Westling
Penicillium vulpinum (Cooke & Massee) Seifert & Samson
Penicillium waksmanii K.M. Zalessky
Penicillium zonatum Hodges & T.J. Perry

Literature

basis of record	Stephenson, S. L. (2014). 2 Excavata: Acrasiomycota; Amoebozoa: Dictyosteliomycota, Myxomycota. Systematics and Evolution. 21-38.
additional source	Clipson, N.; Landy, E.; Otte, M. (2001). Fungi, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 15-19
additional source	Index fungorum
nomenclatural reference	Mag. Gesell. naturf. Freunde, Berlin 3(1-2): 16. 1809
ecology source	Visagie, C.; Houbraken, J.; Frisvad, J.; Hong, S.-B.; Klaassen, C.; Perrone, G.; Seifert, K.; Varga, J.; Yaguchi, T.; Samson, R. (2014). Identification and nomenclature of the genus Penicillium. Studies in Mycology. 78: 343-371.

Genbank

Citation

Index Fungorum Partnership (2025). Index Fungorum. Penicillium Link, 1809. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100236

Penicillium Link. Accessed through: Index Fungorum at http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=9257