Penicillium Link
(blue mould rot)

Interactions where Penicillium is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
		infects and damages live bulb			Tulipa	tulips	Liliales: Liliaceae	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook, Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Eurotiomycetes/Eurotiales/Trichocomaceae/Penicillium/	Penicillium	blue mould rot					Foodplant / pathogen			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Liliales/Liliaceae/Tulipa/	Tulipa	tulips		live	bulb

Author & Year	Title	Source
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997	Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook	2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd

Penicillium (blue mould rot) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Penicillium (blue mould rot) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Penicillium aurantiogriseum a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Anamorphic Species		2 trophisms	1 references
Penicillium brevicompactum Rollrim Mould	Anamorphic Species		8 trophisms	1 references
Penicillium camemberti a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Anamorphic Species			1 references
Penicillium chrysogenum a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Anamorphic Species			1 references
Penicillium citrinum a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Anamorphic Species			1 references
Penicillium expansum a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Anamorphic Species		3 trophisms	1 references
Penicillium glabrum a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Anamorphic Species			1 references
Penicillium griseofulvum a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Anamorphic Species			1 references
Penicillium hirsutum a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Anamorphic Species		1 trophisms	1 references
Penicillium italicum a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Anamorphic Species			1 references
Penicillium oxalicum a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Anamorphic Species			1 references
Penicillium roqueforti a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Anamorphic Species			1 references
Penicillium viridicatum a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus	Anamorphic Species			1 references
Penicillium vulpinum a fungus	Species	1 subtaxa	2 trophisms	1 references

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Penicillium (blue mould rot)
Family	TRICHOCOMACEAE (a family of ascomycetes)
Order	EUROTIALES (an order of ascomycetes)
Subclass	EUROTIOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of ascomycetes)
Class	EUROTIOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Penicillium is also a member of:
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Ascomycota)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Penicillium (blue mould rot)

Identification Works

Handling & Magnification	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Raper, K.B., Thom, C. & Fennel, D.I.	1949	* A Manual of the Penicillia *(Superseded)	875pp, The Williams & Wilkins Company
Talaromyces Species With Penicillium States
	Stolk, A.C. & Samson, R.A.	1972	The Genus Talaromyces: studies on Talaromyces and related genera II	Stud. Mycol. No. 2.

Penicillium (blue mould rot) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

General Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Anon.	1990	Developments in the taxonomy of anamorphic fungi	Stud. Mycol. No. 32.
Samson, R.A., Stolk, A.C. & Hadlok, R.	1976	Revision of the subsection Fasciculata of Penicillium and some allied species.	Stud. Mycol. 11.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Penicillium (blue mould rot):

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

BioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 10 images of Penicillium (blue mould rot)

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Interactions where Penicillium is the dominant partner and gains from the process

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Penicillium is also a member of:

Identification Works

Talaromyces Species With Penicillium States

General Works

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