Penicillium crustosum

Taxobox
name = "Penicillium"


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regnum = Fungi
phylum = Ascomycota
classis = Eurotiomycetes
ordo = Eurotiales
familia = Trichocomaceae
genus = "Penicillium"
species = "P. crustosum"
binomial = "Penicillium crustosum"
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"Penicillium crustosum" is a species of "Penicillium", within the phylum Ascomycota.
*This is the most complex penicillus.

*The end of each conidiophore has clusters of 2 or more branches (rami), each supporting a cluster of conideogenous cells called phialides.

*Can tolerate low temperatures (psychrophile); as well as low H₂O (axenic).

*Produces a neurotoxin called phialides.

References

*C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al., "Introductory Mycology, 4^th ed." (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5