Trichocomaceae

Trichocomaceae
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Culture of Penicillium purpurogenum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Eurotiales
Family:	Trichocomaceae E.Fisch. (1897)
Type genus
Trichocoma Jungh. (1838)

The Trichocomaceae are a family of fungi in 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 common associates of decaying plant and food material. The family contains some of the most familiar fungi, such as Penicillium and Aspergillus.

Genera

• Aspergillus
• Byssochlamys
• Capsulotheca
• Chaetosartorya
• Chaetotheca
• Chromocleista
• Citromyces
• Cristaspora
• Dendrosphaera
• Dichlaena
• Dichotomomyces
• Edyuillia
• Emericella
• Erythrogymnotheca
• Eupenicillium
• Eurotium
• Fennellia
• Hamigera
• Hemicarpenteles
• Neocarpenteles
• Neopetromyces
• Neosartorya
• Paecilomyces
• Penicilliopsis
• Penicillium
• Petromyces
• Phialosimplex
• Rasamsonia
• Sagenoma
• Sagenomella
• Sclerocleista
• Sphaeromyces
• Stilbodendron
• Talaromyces
• Thermoascus
• Torulomyces
• Trichocoma
• Warcupiella
• mitosporic Trichocomaceae

References

• 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.

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Trichocomaceae at Wikispecies