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Studies in Mycology 70: 1–51. 2011.
Phylogeny of Penicillium and the segregation of Trichocomaceae into three
families
J. Houbraken1,2 and R.A. Samson1
1
CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2Microbiology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH
Utrecht, The Netherlands.
*Correspondence: Jos Houbraken, j.houbraken@cbs.knaw.nl
Abstract: Species of Trichocomaceae occur commonly and are important to both industry and medicine. They are associated with food spoilage and mycotoxin production
and can occur in the indoor environment, causing health hazards by the formation of β-glucans, mycotoxins and surface proteins. Some species are opportunistic pathogens,
while others are exploited in biotechnology for the production of enzymes, antibiotics and other products. Penicillium belongs phylogenetically to Trichocomaceae and more
than 250 species are currently accepted in this genus. In this study, we investigated the relationship of Penicillium to other genera of Trichocomaceae and studied in detail
the phylogeny of the genus itself. In order to study these relationships, partial RPB1, RPB2 (RNA polymerase II genes), Tsr1 (putative ribosome biogenesis protein) and Cct8
(putative chaperonin complex component TCP-1) gene sequences were obtained. The Trichocomaceae are divided in three separate families: Aspergillaceae, Thermoascaceae
and Trichocomaceae. The Aspergillaceae are characterised by the formation flask-shaped or cylindrical phialides, asci produced inside cleistothecia or surrounded by Hülle
cells and mainly ascospores with a furrow or slit, while the Trichocomaceae are defined by the formation of lanceolate phialides, asci borne within a tuft or layer of loose hyphae
and ascospores lacking a slit. Thermoascus and Paecilomyces, both members of Thermoascaceae, also form ascospores lacking a furrow or slit, but are differentiated from
Trichocomaceae by the production of asci from croziers and their thermotolerant or thermophilic nature. Phylogenetic analysis shows that Penicillium is polyphyletic. The genus
is re-defined and a monophyletic genus for both anamorphs and teleomorphs is created (Penicillium sensu stricto). The genera Thysanophora, Eupenicillium, Chromocleista,
Hemicarpenteles and Torulomyces belong in Penicillium s. str. and new combinations for the species belonging to these genera are proposed. Analysis of Penicillium below
genus rank revealed the presence of 25 clades. A new classification system including both anamorph and teleomorph species is proposed and these 25 clades are treated here
as sections. An overview of species belonging to each section is presented.
Key words: Aspergillus, Eupenicillium, nomenclature, Penicillium, Talaromyces, taxonomy.
Taxonomic novelties: New sections, all in Penicillium: sect. Sclerotiora Houbraken & Samson, sect. Charlesia Houbraken & Samson, sect. Thysanophora Houbraken & Samson,
sect. Ochrosalmonea Houbraken & Samson, sect. Cinnamopurpurea Houbraken & Samson, Fracta Houbraken & Samson, sect. Stolkia Houbraken & Samson, sect. Gracilenta
Houbraken & Samson, sect. Citrina Houbraken & Samson, sect. Turbata Houbraken & Samson, sect. Paradoxa Houbraken & Samson, sect. Canescentia Houbraken & Samson.
New combinations: Penicillium asymmetricum (Subramanian & Sudha) Houbraken & Samson, P. bovifimosum (Tuthill & Frisvad) Houbraken & Samson, P. glaucoalbidum
(Desmazières) Houbraken & Samson, P. laeve (K. Ando & Manoch) Houbraken & Samson, P. longisporum (Kendrick) Houbraken & Samson, P. malachiteum (Yaguchi &
Udagawa) Houbraken & Samson, P. ovatum (K. Ando & Nawawi) Houbraken & Samson, P. parviverrucosum (K. Ando & Pitt) Houbraken & Samson, P. saturniforme (Wang &
Zhuang) Houbraken & Samson, P. taiwanense (Matsushima) Houbraken & Samson.
New names: Penicillium coniferophilum Houbraken & Samson, P. hennebertii Houbraken & Samson, P. melanostipe Houbraken & Samson, P. porphyreum Houbraken & Samson.
Introduction
The Trichocomaceae comprise a relatively large family of fungi
well-known for their impact, both positive and negative, on human
activities. The most well-known species of this family belong to
the genera Aspergillus, Penicillium and Paecilomyces. Species
belonging to Trichocomaceae are predominantly saprobic
and represent some of the most catabolically and anabolically
diverse microorganisms known. Some species are capable of
growing at extremely low water activities (i.e. xerotolerant and/
or osmotolerant), low temperatures (psychrotolerant) and high
temperatures (thermotolerant). Members of Trichocomaceae
secrete secondary metabolites (extrolites) that are known as
mycotoxins (e.g. aflatoxins, ochratoxins, patulin), while other
extrolites are used as pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics
such as penicillin and the cholesterol-lowering agent lovastatin.
Furthermore, members of Trichocomaceae are also known for their
production of organic acids and diverse enzymes that degrade a
wide variety of complex biomolecules (Geiser et al. 2006, Pitt &
Hocking 2009, Samson et al. 2010).
The taxon Trichocomaceae was introduced by Fischer (1897)
and the classification of this family was studied extensively using
phenotypic characters (Malloch & Cain 1972, Subramanian
1972, Malloch 1985a, b, von Arx 1986). These studies include
only teleomorph genera because Trichocomaceae is based
on Trichocoma, a teleomorph genus, and thus not applicable
for anamorph genera (Malloch 1985b). However, it is noted
that anamorph genera with phialidic structures are linked to
Trichocomaceae (Malloch & Cain 1972). Currently, only the
phylogenetic relationships within certain genera of Trichocomaceae,
e.g. Aspergillus, Penicillium and Paecilomyces, are elucidated
(Peterson 2000a, b, Samson et al. 2004, Peterson 2008, Samson
et al. 2009), but the relationships among the genera are still poorly
studied.
Penicillium is an anamorph genus and belongs phylogenetically
to Trichocomaceae (Berbee 1995, Peterson 2000a). The name
Penicillium is derived from penicillus, which means “little brush” and
was introduced by Link in 1809. Many new species were described
in the 19th century, and Dierckx (1901) was the first researcher
who introduced a subgeneric classification system for the genus.
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He proposed the subgenera Aspergilloides, Biverticillium and
Eupenicillium and Biourge (1923) followed Dierckx’s classification
system and expanded it with two sections, four series and six
subsections. Thom (1930: 155–159) did not accept Dierckx’s
and Biourge’s subgeneric classification system and introduced a
new system with four divisions (subgenera), 12 sections and 18
subsections (series). His system was mainly based on colony
characteristics and conidiophore branching and the monographs
of Raper & Thom (1949) and Ramírez (1982) are in line with that
of Thom (1930). Pitt (1980) did not follow Thom’s concept and,
based on conidiophore characters, phialide shapes and growth
characteristics, divided Penicillium into four subgenera, 10 sections
and 21 series. In addition, he treated Eupenicillium separately from
Penicillium and subdivided the former genus into eight series. In
1985, Stolk & Samson proposed another taxonomic scheme for
Penicillium anamorphs and this classification was primary based
on phialide shape and conidiophore branching. They divided
Penicillium in 10 sections and 18 series and this taxonomic
scheme treated strict anamorphs, as well as anamorphs of sexual
Penicillium species. More recently, Frisvad & Samson (2004)
studied subgenus Penicillium and five sections and 17 series were
recognised.
The first attempt to make a subgeneric classification of
Eupenicillium was undertaken by Pitt (1980) and eight series were
introduced. This classification was based on a combination of
various characters, such as growth rates in standard conditions,
colony morphology and microscopical characters of both
teleomorphic and anamorphic states. In the monograph of Stolk &
Samson (1983), four sections were introduced for the classification
of Eupenicillium, and Pitt’s concept of using series of species was
abandoned.
To date, only a limited number of studies have investigated
the phylogenetic relationship of Penicillium at genus level.
Berbee (1995), based of 18S rDNA sequences, demonstrated
that Penicillium is polyphyletic. The genus splits up in two clades:
one clade includes Talaromyces species and members of the
subgenus Biverticillium and the other clade includes Eupenicillium
species and Penicillium species accommodated in the subgenera
Penicillium, Furcatum and Aspergilloides (LoBuglio & Taylor 1993,
LoBuglio et al. 1993, Berbee et al. 1995, Ogawa et al. 1997,
Wang & Zhuang 2007). Peterson (2000a) studied the phylogeny
of Eupenicillium and members of the subgenera Penicillium,
Furcatum and Aspergilloides in more detail. He subsequently
divided the studied species in six groups and showed that many
subgeneric taxa in Penicillium are polyphyletic. Furthermore, his
data indicated that the current classification systems based on
conidiophore branching is not congruent with the phylogeny and a
new subgeneric classification system is needed.
Pleomorphism in fungi was first demonstrated by Tulasne
(1851). Together with his discovery, he was already aware of the
problem raised by the nomenclature of composite species and
he stated that the imperfect forms must someday be submerged
in the Ascomycota. He thus established a first principle of
pleomorphic nomenclature and suggested the precedence of
the perfect state name over imperfect names (Hennebert 1971).
In 1910, “dual nomenclature” was introduced and this was
established in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
(ICBN). The problem of naming fungi that exhibit pleomorphic
life cycles was addressed in previous versions of article 59 of
the ICBN and implied that more than one name for a single
taxon can be used (Cline 2005). Recently, the proposal to revise
article 59 was accepted at the 2011 IBC Nomenclature Section
2
at Melbourne and the principle of "one fungus : one name" was
established (Norvell et al. 2011).
In the present study, the phylogenetic relationships between
Penicillium and other members of the family Trichocomaceae are
studied using a combined analysis of four loci (RPB1, RPB2, Tsr1
and Cct8). In this study, the principle "one fungus - one name" is
applied and priority is given to the oldest family, genus and section
names using the single-name nomenclature (Hawksworth et al.
2011, Norvell 2011). Penicillium is delimited, various genera are
placed in synonymy, and new combinations in Penicillium are
made for the species belonging to the genera Thysanophora,
Eupenicillium, Chromocleista, Hemicarpenteles and Torulomyces.
Subsequently, the phylogeny of Penicillium is studied and a new
sectional classification system is proposed. In addition, an overview
of species in each section is presented.
Material and methods
Strains
The first part of this study treats the phylogenetic relationships
of the Penicillium species among Trichocomaceae. A selection of
strains is made in order to study these relationships and in most
cases the types of the genera were selected. The second part
deals with the phylogeny of Penicillium. For this study, the type
species of the various subgenera and sections in Penicillium and
Eupenicillium were selected, and this selection is supplemented
with other related species. An overview of strains used in the study
of the phylogeny of Trichocomaceae and Penicillium presented in
Table 1. In the third part of this study, a new sectional classification
system for Penicillium is proposed and lists of species in each
section are compiled. For the preparation of these lists, mostly type
strains were selected of accepted Penicillium and Eupenicillium
species. This selection is based on the overview of “accepted
species and their synonyms in the Trichocomaceae” by Pitt et al.
(2000) and supplemented with species described after 2000. An
overview of these strains is shown in Table S1 (Supplementary
Information - online only) and partly in Table 1 (species names
indicated with two asterisks). All strains are maintained in the
CBS-KNAW culture collection and additional strains were obtained
from IBT (culture collection of Center for Microbial Biotechnology
(CMB) at Department of Systems Biology, Technical University
of Denmark), NRRL (ARS Culture Collection, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois, USA), ATCC (American Type Culture
Collection, Manassas, VA, USA) and IMI (CABI Genetic Resources
Collection, Surrey, UK).
DNA extraction, amplification and sequencing
Genomic DNA was extracted using the Ultraclean Microbial
DNA isolation kit (MoBio Laboratories, Carlsbad, CA, USA),
according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Parts of the
following loci were amplified and sequenced for the species
listed in Table 1: 1. RPB1, RNA polymerase II largest subunit
(regions E and F; according Matheny et al. 2002), 2. RPB2, RNA
polymerase II second largest subunit (regions 5–7), 3. Cct8,
subunit of the cytosolic chaperonin Cct ring complex, related
to Tcp1p and required for the assembly of actin and tubulins
in vivo (Stoldt et al. 1996, Kim et al. 1994), 4. Tsr1, protein
required for processing of 20S pre-rRNA in the cytoplasm
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
Table 1. Strains used in phylogenetic analysis of Trichocomaceae and other families.
CBS no.
Name
Other collections
Origin
RPB1
RPB2
Tsr1
Cct8
CBS 267.72NT
Aphanoascus cinnabarinus*
ATCC 26215
Soil, Japan
JN121625
JN121477
JN121783
JN121903
CBS 172.66
Aspergillus aculeatus*
ATCC 16872 = IMI
211388
Tropical soil
JN121590
JN121448
JN121755
JN121895
CBS 600.67T
Aspergillus amylovorus*
ATCC 18351 = IMI
129961 = MUCL 15648
Wheat starch, Kharkiv,
Ukraine
JN121705
JN121538
JN121844
JN121931
CBS 463.65NT
Aspergillus arenarius*
ATCC 16830 = IMI
055632 = IMI 055632ii
Soil, Mysore, Karnataka,
India
JN121684
JN121520
JN121825
JN121917
CBS 653.74T
Aspergillus aureofulgens*
Natural truffle soil,
Provence, France
JN121712
JN121545
JN121851
JN121936
CBS 109.46NT
Aspergillus avenaceus*
ATCC 16861 = IMI
016140 = NRRL 517
Seed of Pisum sativum
(pea), England, UK
JN121565
JN121424
JN121731
JN121878
CBS 468.65NT
Aspergillus biplanus*
ATCC 16858 = IMI
235602
Soil, Tilaran, Costa Rica
JN121685
JN121520
JN121826
JN121917
CBS 707.71T
Aspergillus bisporus*
ATCC 22527 = NRRL
3693
Soil injected into mouse,
Clarksburg, Maryland,
USA
JN121715
JN121548
JN121854
JN121939
CBS 127.61NT
Aspergillus
brunneouniseriatus*
ATCC 16916 = IMI
227677
Soil under Dalbergia
sissoo, India
JN121583
JN121442
JN121749
JN121889
CBS 121611
Aspergillus calidoustus*
Patient (case 4), man
with allogeneic HSCT,
probably lung infection,
man, Washington, USA
JN121579
JN121438
JN121745
JN121887
CBS 566.65NT
Aspergillus candidus*
ATCC 1002 = IMI
091889 = NRRL 303
Unknown source
JN121702
JN121535
JN121841
JN121929
CBS 196.64NT
Aspergillus cervinus*
ATCC 15508 = IMI
107684
Soil, West Malaysia,
Malaysia
JN121595
JN121452
JN121759
JN121896
CBS 473.65NT
Aspergillus clavatoflavus*
ATCC 16866 = IMI
124937
Rain forest soil,Tulley,
Queensland, Australia
JN121686
JN121521
JN121827
JN121918
Aspergillus clavatus1*
NRRL 1 (= ATCC 1007
= CBS 513.65 = IMI
15949)
Unknown source
Fedorova et
al. (2008)
CBS 476.65NT
Aspergillus conjunctus*
ATCC 16796 = IMI
135421
Forest soil, Palmar,
Province of Puntarenas,
Costa Rica
JN121688
JN121523
JN121829
JN121920
CBS 553.77T
Aspergillus coremiiformis*
ATCC 38576 = 223069
Soil, Ivory Coast
JN121700
JN12153
JN121839
JN121926
CBS 656.73NT
Aspergillus egyptiacus*
IMI 141415
Sandy soil, under Olea
europaea (olive tree),
Mediterranean Coast,
Ras-el-Hikma, Egypt
JN121713
JN121546
JN121852
JN121937
CBS 128202
Aspergillus flavus1*
NRRL 3357 (= ATCC
200026)
Peanut cotyledons, USA
Unpublished
Aspergillus fumigatus1*
Af293
Patient with invasive
aspergillosis
Nierman et al.
(2005)
CBS 116.56NT
Aspergillus funiculosus*
ATCC 16846 = IMI
054397 = IMI 054397ii
Soil, Ibadan, Nigeria
JN121572
JN121431
JN121738
JN121883
CBS 118.45T
Aspergillus janus*
ATCC 16835 = IMI
016065 = IMI 016065ii
= MUCL 31307 = NRRL
1787
Soil, Panama
JN121576
JN121435
JN121742
JN121885
CBS 538.65NT
Aspergillus kanagawaensis*
ATCC 16143 = IMI
126690
Forest soil under Pinus
banksiana, Wisconsin,
USA
JN121698
JN121531
JN121837
JN121925
CBS 151.66T
Aspergillus leporis*
ATCC 16490
Dung of Lepus
townsendii (white-tailed
Jackrabbit ), near
Saratoga, Wyoming,
USA
JN121589
JN121446
JN121753
JN121893
CBS 513.88
Aspergillus niger1*
Derived from NRRL
3122 and currently used
as enzyme production
strain.
Pel et al.
(2007)
T
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Table 1. (Continued).
CBS no.
Name
Other collections
Origin
GenBank accession or reference1
RPB1
RPB2
Tsr1
Cct8
CBS 101887
Aspergillus ochraceoroseus*
ATCC 42001 = IBT
14580
Soil, Tai National Forest,
Ivory Coast
JN121557
JN121416
JN121723
JN121871
CBS 108.08NT
Aspergillus ochraceus*
ATCC 1008 = CBS
547.65 = IMI 016247
= IMI 016247iii = IMI
016247iv = NRRL 1642
= NRRL 398
Unknown source
JN121562
JN121421
JN121728
JN121875
CBS 622.67T
Aspergillus penicilliformis*
ATCC 18328 = IMI
129968 = IMI 132431
Soil under Nicotiana
tabacum, Moldavia,
Romania
JN121708
JN121542
JN121848
JN121934
CBS 130294
Aspergillus penicillioides*
DTO 11C3
Indoor environment,
Germany
JN121578
JN121437
JN121744
JN121886
CBS 578.65NT
Aspergillus pulvinus*
ATCC 16842 = IMI
139628
Forest soil, Liberia,
Province of
Guanacaste, Costa Rica
JN121703
JN121536
JN121842
JN121930
CBS 117.33NT
Aspergillus restrictus*
ATCC 16912 = CBS
541.65 = IMI 016267 =
MUCL 31313 = NRRL
154 = NRRL 4155
Cloth, UK
JN121574
JN121432
JN121740
JN121884
CBS 649.93T
Aspergillus robustus*
CBS 428.77 = IBT
14305
Surface soil from thornforest, near Mombasa,
Kenya
JN121711
JN121544
JN121850
JN121935
CBS 139.61NT
Aspergillus sparsus*
ATCC 16851 = IMI
019394 = IMI 019394ii
= MUCL 31314 = NRRL
1933
Soil, Costa Rica
JN121586
JN121444
JN121751
JN121891
CBS 112812T
Aspergillus steynii*
IBT 23096
Dried arabica
green coffee bean,
on parchment,
internal infection,
Chamumdeshuran
Estata, Karnataka,
district Giris, India
JN121569
JN121428
JN121735
JN121880
CBS 264.81
Aspergillus sydowii*
Grains and milling
fractions, Triticum
aestivum, India
JN121624
JN121476
JN121782
JN121902
Aspergillus terreus1*
NIH 2624
Clinical isolate
Unpublished
CBS 272.89
Aspergillus togoensis*
NRRL 13550
Seed, near La Maboké,
Central African Republic
JN121627
JN121480
JN121785
JN121904
CBS 245.65
Aspergillus versicolor*
ATCC 11730 = ATCC
16020 = IMI 045554
= IMI 045554ii =
IMI 045554iii = IMI
045554iv = MUCL
19008
Cellophane, Indiana,
USA
JN121614
JN121468
JN121775
JN121899
CBS 104.07NT
Aspergillus wentii*
ATCC 1023 = IMI
017295 = IMI 017295ii
= NRRL 1269 = NRRL
375
Soybeans, Java,
Indonesia
JN121559
JN121418
JN121725
JN121873
CBS 506.65NT
Aspergillus zonatus*
ATCC 16867 = IMI
124936
Forest soil, Province of
Linon, Fortuna, Costa
Rica
JN121691
JN121526
JN121832
JN121921
CBS 380.74T
Basipetospora halophilica*
IFO 9650
Undaria pinnatifida
(Wakame), Osaka,
Japan
JN121666
JN121509
JN121815
JN121910
CBS 100.11NT
Byssochlamys nivea*
ATCC 22260
Unknown source
JN121511
JF417414
JF417381
JF417514
CBS 101075
Byssochlamys spectabilis*
ATCC 90900 = FRR
5219
Heat processed fruit
beverage; Tokyo Japan
JN121554
JF417446
JF417412
JF417546
CBS 605.74T
Byssochlamys verrucosa*
ATCC 34163
Nesting material
of Leipoa ocellata
(Malleefowl), Pulletop
Nature Reserve, New
South Wales, Australia
JN680311
JN121540
JN121746
JN121932
T
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Table 1. (Continued).
CBS no.
Name
Other collections
Origin
GenBank accession or reference1
RPB1
RPB2
Tsr1
Cct8
CBS 132.31T
Chrysosporium inops*
IMI 096729 = UAMH
802
Skin man, Italy
JN121584
JN121443
JN121750
JN121890
Coccidioides immitis1*
Strain “RS”
Vaccine strain - origin
unknown
Sharpton et
al. (2009)
CBS 525.83T
Cristaspora arxii*
ATCC 52744 = FMR
416
Soil, Tarragona, Spain
JN121695
JN121529
JN121835
JN121924
CBS 157.66NT
Dichotomomyces cejpii*
Orchard soil, near
Tiraspol, Moldova
JN121589
JN121447
JN121754
JN121894
Emericella nidulans1*
FGSC A4 (= ATCC
38163 = CBS 112.46)
Unknown source
Galagan et al.
(2005)
CBS 229.60T
Eupenicillium hirayamae*
ATCC 18312 = IMI
078255 = IMI 078255ii
= NRRL 143
Milled rice, Thailand
JN121604
JN121459
JN121766
JN121946
CBS 518.65NT
Eurotium amstelodami*
ATCC 16464 = IMI
229971 = NRRL 90
Unknown substrate
JN121694
JN121528
JN121834
JN121923
CBS 516.65NT
Eurotium herbariorum*
ATCC 16469 = IMI
211383 = NRRL 116
Unpainted board,
Washington, USA
JN121693
JN121527
JN121833
JN121922
CBS 260.73T
Fennellia flavipes*
ATCC 24484 = IMI
171883 = NRRL 5504
Cellulose material
buried in forest soil, Pak
Thong Chai, Thailand
JN121623
JN121475
JN121781
JN121901
CBS 252.87T
Geosmithia viridis*
IMI 288716
Soil; bank of creek
flowing into Little River;
New South Wales;
Australia
JN121620
JF417422
JF417389
JF417522
CBS 295.48IsoT
Hamigera avellanea*
ATCC 10414 = IMI
040230 = NRRL 1938
Soil; San Antonio,
Texas, USA
JN121632
JF417424
JF417391
JF417524
CBS 377.48NT
Hamigera striata*
ATCC 10501 IMI
039741 = NRRL 717
Canned blueberries,
USA
JN121665
JN121508
JN121814
JN121909
CBS 527.65T
Hemicarpenteles paradoxus*
ATCC 16918 = IMI
061446 = NRRL 2162
Dung of Opossum,
Wellington, New
Zealand
JN121696
JN121530
JN121836
JN121989
CBS 607.74T
Leiothecium ellipsoideum*
ATCC 32453
Soil, between rocks,
Mystras, Peloponnesos,
Greece
JN121707
JN121541
JN121847
JN121933
CBS 109402T
Monascus argentinensis*
FMR 7393
Soil sample, El
Infiernillo, Tafi del Valle,
Tucumán province,
Argentina
JN121564
JN121423
JN121730
JN121877
CBS 113675
Monascus lunisporas*
FMR 6679
Soil sample, Corcovado
Mountain, Tijuca
National Park, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
JN121570
JN121429
JN121736
JN121881
CBS 109.07T
Monascus purpureus*
ATCC 16365 = ATCC
16426 = IMI 210765 =
NRRL 1596
Fermented rice grain,
‘ang-quac’ (purple
coloured rice), KagokTegal, imported from
China, Prov. Quouantoung, Java, Indonesia
JN121563
JN121422
JN121729
JN121876
CBS 558.71T
Neocarpenteles
acanthosporum*
ATCC 22931 = IMI
164621
Soil, Bougainville Island,
Solomon Islands
JN121701
JN121534
JN121840
JN121928
Neosartorya fischeri*
NRRL 181
Canned fruit
CBS 350.66
Paecilomyces aerugineus*
IMI 105412
Debris of Glyceria
maxima, Attenborough,
Notts., UK
JN121657
JN121502
JN121808
JN121907
CBS 761.68
Penicilliopsis clavariiformis*
CSIR 1135
Unknown source,
Pretoria, South Africa
JN121716
JN121549
JN121855
JN121940
CBS 246.67HT
Penicillium abidjanum**
ATCC 18385 = FRR
1156 = IMI 136244
Savannah soil, near
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
JN121615
JN121469
JN121777
JN121954
CBS 209.28LT
Penicillium adametzii*
ATCC 10407 = IMI
039751 = MUCL 29106
= NRRL 737
Soil under conifers,
Poznan, Poland
JN121598
JN121455
JN121762
JN121944
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Name
Other collections
Origin
RPB1
RPB2
Tsr1
Cct8
CBS 317.67HT
Penicillium alutaceum**
ATCC 18542 = FRR
1158 = IFO 31728 = IMI
136243
Soil, near Pretoria,
South Africa
JN121641
JN121489
JN121795
JN121968
CBS 220.66IsoT
Penicillium arenicola*
ATCC 18321 = ATCC
18330 = IMI 117658 =
NRRL 3392
Soil from pine forest,
Kiev, Ukraine
JN121601
JN121457
JN121764
JN121897
CBS 241.56NT
Penicillium atrovenetum**
ATCC 13352 = FRR
2571 = IFO 8138 = IMI
061837
Soil, Sussex Downs,
England
JN121614
JN121467
JN121774
JN121953
CBS 299.48AUT
Penicillium camemberti**
ATCC 1105 = ATCC
4845 = FRR 878 = IBT
21508 = IMI 027831 =
IMI 092200 = MUCL
29790 = NRRL 877 =
NRRL 878
French Camembert
cheese, Connecticut,
USA
JN121635
JN121484
JN121790
JN121963
CBS 300.48NT
Penicillium canescens*
ATCC 10419 = IMI
028260 = MUCL 29169
= NRRL 910
Soil, England
JN121636
JN121485
JN121791
JN121964
CBS 233.81
Penicillium caperatum
FRR 71 = IMI 216895
Neotype of E.
brefeldianum; soil,
Murrumbidgee Irrigation
Area, N.S.W., Australia
JN121610
JN121465
JN121772
JN121952
CBS 352.67HT
Penicillium catenatum*
ATCC 18543 = IMI
136241
Desert soil, Upington,
Cape Province, South
Africa
JN121659
JN121504
JN121810
JN121980
CBS 304.48T
Penicillium charlesii*
ATCC 8730 = CBS
342.51 = IMI 040232
= NRRL 1887 = NRRL
778
Unknown source, UK
JN121637
JN121486
JN121792
JN121965
CBS 306.48NT
Penicillium chrysogenum**
ATCC 10106 = FRR
807 = IBT 5233 = IMI
024314 = IMI 092208 =
MUCL 29079 = MUCL
29145 = NRRL 807 =
NRRL 810
Cheese, Storrs,
Connecticut
JN121638
JN121487
JN121793
JN121966
Penicillium chrysogenum1*
Wisconsin 54-1255
Moldy cantaloupe
Peoria, Illinois, USA
van den Berg
et al.(2008)
CBS 490.66
Penicillium
cinnamopurpureum*
ATCC 18337 = IMI
114483
Type of E.
cinnamopurpureum;
cultivated soil, South
Africa
JN121690
JN121525
JN121831
JN121988
CBS 258.29NT
Penicillium citreonigrum*
ATCC 48736 = 092209 Rotting stem, Belgium
= MUCL 28648 = MUCL
29062 = MUCL 29116 =
NRRL 761
JN121622
JN121474
JN121780
JN121957
CBS 139.45NT
Penicillium citrinum*
ATCC 1109 = IMI
091961 = MUCL 29781
= NRRL 1841
Unknown
JN121585
JF417416
JF417383
JF417516
CBS 232.38
Penicillium citrinum**
Thom 4733.73
Type of P. implicatum;
unknown source,
Belgium
JN121608
JN121463
JN121770
JN121950
CBS 119387T
Penicillium coffeae*
IBT 27866 = NRRL
35363
Peduncle, Coffea
arabica, Oahu, Aiea,
Hawaii, USA
JN121577
JN121436
JN121743
JN121862
CBS 231.38
Penicillium corylophilum**
ATCC 10452 = IFO
7726 = IMI 039817 =
NRRL 872
Type of P. humuli;
Humus lupulus (hops),
Weihenstephan,
Germany
JN121606
JN121461
JN121768
JN121948
CBS 271.89HT
Penicillium cryptum*
ATCC 60138 = IMI
296794 = NRRL 13460
Soil from QuercusBetula forest,
Hempstead Lake State
Park, Long Island, New
York
JN121626
JN121478
JN121784
JN121958
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CBS no.
Name
Other collections
Origin
RPB1
RPB2
Tsr1
Cct8
CBS 660.80T
Penicillium dendriticum*
IMI 216897
Leaf litter of Eucalyptus
pauciflora, Kosciusko
National Park, New
South Wales, Australia
JN121714
JN121547
JN121853
JN121938
CBS 112082epiT
Penicillium digitatum**
IBT 13068
Citrus limon, Italy
JN121567
JN121426
JN121733
JN121858
CBS 456.70T
Penicillium dimorphosporum*
ATCC 22783 = ATCC
52501 = FRR 1120 =
IMI 149680
Mangrove swamp soil,
below high tide level,
Tooraddin, Westernport
Bay, Sawtell’s Inlet,
Victoria, Australia
JN121683
JN121517
JN121823
JN121985
CBS 322.48AUT
Penicillium duclauxii*
ATCC 10439 = IMI
Canvas, France
040044 = MUCL 28672
= MUCL 29094 = MUCL
29212 = NRRL 1030
JN121643
JN121491
JN121797
JN121905
CBS 112493T
Penicillium
ellipsoideosporum**
AS 3.5688
Banyan seeds,
Pingxiang, Guanbxi
Province, China (data
after Wang et al. 2007)
JN121568
JN121427
JN121734
JN121859
CBS 318.67HT
Penicillium erubescens**
ATCC 18544 = FRR
814 = IFO 31734 = IMI
136204
Nursery soil, Pretoria,
South Africa
JN121642
JN121490
JN121796
JN121969
CBS 323.71NT
Penicillium euglaucum*
Soil, Argentina
JN121644
JN121492
JN121798
JN121970
CBS 325.48
Penicillium expansum*
ATCC 7861 = IBT 5101
= IMI 039761= MUCL
29192 = NRRL 976
Fruit of Malus sylvestris;
USA
JN121645
JF417427
JF417394
JF417527
CBS 229.81NT
Penicillium fellutanum**
ATCC 10443 = CBS
326.48 = FRR 746 =
IFO 5761 = IMI 039734
= IMI 039734iii = NRRL
746
Unknown source, USA
JN121605
JN121460
JN121767
JN121947
CBS 124.68T
Penicillium fractum*
ATCC 18567 = FRR
3448 = IMI 136701 =
NRRL 3448
Soil, Univ. Shinshu,
Ueda-shi, Nagano Pref,
Japan
JN121582
JN121441
JN121748
JN121864
CBS 295.62NT
Penicillium fuscum**
ATCC 14770 = IFO
7743 = IMI 094209 =
MUCL 31196 = NRRL
3008 = WSF 15c
Type of E. pinetorum
and neotype of
Citromyces fuscus;
pine-birch forest
soil, Vilas County,
Wisconsin, USA
JN121633
JN121483
JN121789
JN121962
CBS 125543NT
Penicillium glabrum*
IBT 22658 = IMI 91944
Unknown
JN121717
JF417447
JF417413
JF417547
CBS 599.73T
Penicillium gracilentum*
ATCC 28047 = ATCC
48258 = IMI 216900
Soil, Brown River, Port
Moresby, Central Dist.,
Papua New Guinea
JN121704
JN121537
JN121843
JN121990
CBS 185.27NT
Penicillium griseofulvum*
ATCC 11885 = IBT
6740 = IMI 075832 =
IMI 075832ii = MUCL
28643 = NRRL 2152 =
NRRL 2300
Unknown source,
Belgium
JN121592
JN121449
JN121756
JN121865
CBS 277.58T
Penicillium griseolum*
ATCC 18239 = IMI
071626 = NRRL 2671
Acidic dune sand,
Dorset, Stufland,
England
JN121629
JN121480
JN121786
JN121959
CBS 336.48NT
Penicillium herquei**
ATCC 10118 = FRR
1040 = IFO 31747 = IMI
028809 = MUCL 29213
= NRRL 1040
Leaf, France
JN121647
JN121494
JN121800
JN121972
CBS 341.68T
Penicillium idahoense*
ATCC 22055 = IMI
148393
Soil, Latàh Co., Univ.
of Idaho Plant Science
Farm, Idaho, USA
JN121652
JN121499
JN121805
JN121976
CBS 351.67T
Penicillium inusitatum*
ATCC 18622 = IMI
136214
Forest soil, Knysna
Valley, Cape Province,
South Africa
JN121658
JN121503
JN121809
JN121979
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Table 1. (Continued).
CBS no.
Name
Other collections
Origin
RPB1
RPB2
Tsr1
Cct8
CBS 247.56NT
Penicillium isariiforme*
ATCC 18425 = IMI
060371 = MUCL 31191
= MUCL 31323 = NRRL
2638
Woodland soil, Zaire
JN121616
JN121470
JN121720
JN121993
CBS 338.48NT
Penicillium islandicum*
ATCC 10127 = IMI
040042 = MUCL 31324
= NRRL 1036
Unknown source, Cape
Town, South Africa
JN121648
JN121495
JN121801
JN121906
CBS 339.48NT
Penicillium italicum**
ATCC 10454 = FRR
983 = IBT 23029 = IMI
039760 = MUCL 15608
= NRRL 983
Fruit, Citrus Experiment
Station, Riverside,
California, USA
JN121649
JN121496
JN121802
JN121973
CBS 340.48NT
Penicillium janthinellum*
ATCC 10455 = IMI
040238 = NRRL 2016
Soil, Nicaragua
JN131650
JN121497
JN121803
JN121974
CBS 341.48T
Penicillium javanicum*
ATCC 9099 = FRR 707
= IMI 039733 = MUCL
29099 = NRRL 707
Type of P. javanicum,
E. javanicum and P.
indonesiae; root of
Camellia sinensis
(green tea), Buitenzorg,
Java, Indonesia
JN121651
JN121498
JN121804
JN121975
CBS 247.67T
Penicillium katangense*
ATCC 18388 = IMI
136206 = NRRL 5182
Soil, Katanga, Zaire
JN121618
JN121471
JN121777
JN121955
CBS 344.61T
Penicillium kewense*
ATCC 18240 = IMI
086561= MUCL 2685 =
NRRL 3332
Culture contaminant of
mineral oil, Kew, Surrey,
England, UK
JN121654
JF417428
JF417395
JF417528
CBS 106.11NT
Penicillium lanosum*
ATCC 10458 = IMI
040224 = MUCL 29232
= NRRL 2009
Unknown source,
Germany
JN121561
JN121420
JN121727
JN121857
CBS 343.48T
Penicillium lapidosum*
ATCC 10462 = IMI
039743 = NRRL 718
Canned blueberry,
Washington, USA
JN121653
JN121500
JN121806
JN121977
CBS 277.70T
Penicillium lassenii*
ATCC 22054 = IMI
148395
Soil under conifers,
Tehama Co., Lassen
National Forest, 1300 m
alt., California, USA
JN121630
JN121481
JN121787
JN121960
CBS 116871T
Penicillium
macrosclerotiorum*
AS 3.6581
Soil, Chongqing,
Wushan County,
Sichuang Province,
China
JN121573
JN121432
121739
JN121860
CBS 647.95HT
Penicillium malachiteum*
IBT 17515
Soil, Nihondaira Pref.
Park, Shimizu-shi,
Shimizu-ken, Japan
JN121710
JN121543
JN121849
JN121991
Penicillium marneffei1*
ATCC 18224 (CBS
334.59 = IMI 68794)
Bamboo rat (Rhizomys
sinensis); Vietnam
Unpublished
CBS 256.55NT
Penicillium megasporum*
ATCC 12322 = IMI
216904 = NRRL 2232
Heath soil,Suffolk,
England
JN121621
JN121473
JN121779
JN121900
CBS 642.68NT
Penicillium minioluteum*
IMI 089377 = MUCL
28666
Unknown
JN121709
JF417443
JF417409
JF417543
CBS 353.48NT
Penicillium namyslowskii*
ATCC 11127 = IMI
040033 = MUCL 29226
= NRRL 1070
Soil under Pinus sp.;
Puszcza Bialowieska,
Poland
JN121660
JF417430
JF417397
JF417530
CBS 203.84HT
Penicillium nepalense**
NHL 6482
Rice soil, Boudha,
Kathmandu, Nepal
JN121596
JN121453
JN121760
JN121868
CBS 489.66T
Penicillium ochrosalmoneum*
ATCC 18338 = IMI
116248ii
Type of E.
ochrosalmoneum;
cornmeal, South Africa
JN121689
JN121524
JN121830
JN121987
CBS 232.60NT
Penicillium olsonii*
IBT 23473 = IMI
192502
Root, Picea abies, alt.
1980 m., Pitztal, Austria
JN121609
JN121464
JN121771
JN121952
CBS 190.68T
Penicillium ornatum*
ATCC 18608 = IMI
137977 = NRRL 3471
Soil, Moto-machi,
Oshima Islands, Japan
JN121594
JN121451
JN121758
JN121867
CBS 462.72HT
Penicillium osmophilum**
IBT 14679
Agricultural soil,
Wageningen, the
Netherlands
JN121683
JN121518
JN121824
JN121986
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Table 1. (Continued).
CBS no.
Name
Other collections
Origin
RPB1
RPB2
Tsr1
Cct8
CBS 219.30NT
Penicillium oxalicum**
ATCC 1126 = FRR 787
= IMI 192332 = MUCL
29047 = NRRL 787
Soil, Connecticut
JN121600
JN121456
JN131763
JN121944
CBS 251.56T
Penicillium ramusculum*
ATCC 12292 = IMI
063546 = NRRL 3459
Culture contaminant,
Brazil
JN121620
JN121472
JN121778
JN121956
CBS 367.48NT
Penicillium restrictum**
ATCC 11257 = FRR
1748 = IMI 040228 =
NRRL 1748
Soil, Honduras
JN121662
JN121506
JN121812
JN121981
CBS 231.61NT
Penicillium sacculum (syn.
Eladia saccula)*
ATCC 18350 = IMI
051498
Soil, Madrid, Spain
JN121607
JN121462
JN121769
JN121949
CBS 122276T
Penicillium saturniforme**
AS 3.6886
Soil, Jiling Province,
China
JN121580
JN121439
JN121746
JN121863
CBS 290.48T
Penicillium shearii*
ATCC 10410 = IMI
039739 = IMI 039739iv
= NRRL 715
Soil, Tela, Honduras
JN121631
JN121482
JN121788
JN121961
CBS 228.89T
Penicillium shennangjianum**
AS 3.4526
Mouldy pea, Hubei
Province, Shennongjia,
China
JN121603
JN121458
JN121766
JN121945
CBS 372.48NT
Penicillium simplicissimum*
ATCC 10495 = IFO
5762 = IMI 039816
Flannel bag, Cape,
South Africa
JN121662
JN121507
JN121813
JN121981
CBS 315.67T
Penicillium stolkiae*
ATCC 18546 = IMI
136210
Peaty forest soil,
Eastern Transvaal,
South Africa
JN121640
JN121488
JN121794
JN121967
CBS 117503T
Penicillium thiersii*
IBT 27050 = NRRL
28162
Old, black stroma,
encrusting the surface
of dead Acer saccharum
log, alt. 300 m., New
Glarus Woods State
Park, Wisconsin, USA
JN121575
JN121434
JN121741
JN121861
CBS 347.59
Penicillium thomii**
IFO 6031 = IMI 068221
Type of P. thomii var.
flavescens; soil, Japan
JN121655
JN121501
JN121807
JN121978
CBS 430.69T
Penicillium tularense*
ATCC 22056 = IMI
148394
Soil, under Pinus
ponderosa and Quercus
kelloggii, Tulare Co.,
Pine Flat, California
JN121681
JN121516
JN121822
JN121984
CBS 603.74NT
Penicillium verrucosum**
ATCC 48957 = FRR
965 = IBT 12809 = IBT
4733 = IMI 200310 =
IMI 200310ii = MUCL
28674 = MUCL 29089
= MUCL 29186 = NRRL
965
Unknown source,
Belgium
JN121706
JN121539
JN121845
JN121991
CBS 390.48NT
Penicillium viridicatum**
ATCC 10515= IBT
23041 = IMI 039758 =
IMI 039758ii = NRRL
963
Air, District of Columbia,
Washington D.C., USA
JN121668
JN121511
JN121817
JN121983
CBS 430.64IsoT
Phialomyces macrosporus*
ATCC 16661 = IMI
110130 = MUCL 9776
Soil, near Rotorua, New
Zealand
JN121680
JN121515
JN121821
JN121915
CBS 128032T
Phialosimplex caninus*
UAMH 10337
Bone marrow aspirate
ex dog, San Antonio,
Texas, USA
JN121587
JN121445
JN121752
JN121892
CBS 109945T
Phialosimplex
chlamydosporus*
FMR 7371 = IMI
387422
Disseminated infection
in a dog
JN121566
JN121425
JN121732
JN121879
CBS 366.77T
Phialosimplex sclerotialis*
IAM 14794
Fodder of ray-grass and
lucerne, France
JN121661
JN121505
JN121811
JN121908
CBS 384.61T
Polypaecilum insolitum*
ATCC 18164 = IMI
075202 = MUCL 3078
Ear of human, Leeds,
Yorkshire, England, UK
JN121667
JN121510
JN121816
JN121911
CBS 101166
Polypaecilum pisci*
Yeast extract,
Netherlands
JN121555
JN121415
JN121722
JN121870
CBS 101.69T
Rasamsonia argillacea*
Mine tip with a very high
surface temperature;
Staffordshire, UK
JN121556
JF417415
JF417382
JF417515
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156096 = IBT 31199
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Table 1. (Continued).
CBS no.
Name
Other collections
Origin
RPB1
RPB2
Tsr1
Cct8
CBS 413.71T
Rasamsonia
byssochlamydoides*
DTO 149D6 = IBT
11604
Dry soil under Douglas
fir; Oregon, USA
JN121675
JF417437
JF417403
JF417537
CBS 275.58NT
Rasamsonia cylindrospora*
DTO 138F8 = IBT
31202 = ATCC 18223 =
IMI 071623
Culture contaminant;
Berkshire, England, UK
JN121628
JF417423
JF417390
JF417523
CBS 393.64T
Rasamsonia emersonii*
DTO 48I1 = IBT 21695
= ATCC 16479 = IMI
116815 = IMI 116815ii
Compost; Italy
JN121670
JF417434
JF417401
JF417534
CBS 114.72IsoT
Sagenoma viride*
ATCC 22467 = NRRL
5575
Soil, Australia
JN121571
JN121430
JN121737
JN121882
CBS 545.86T
Sagenomella bohemica*
CCF 2330 = IAM 14789
Peloids for balneological
purposes, Frantiskovy
Lázne Spa, West
Bohemia, Czech
Republic
JN121699
JN121532
JN121838
JN121927
CBS 398.69
Sagenomella diversispora*
Forest soil under
Populus tremuloides;
Petawawa, Ontario,
Canada
JN121673
JF417435
JF417402
JF417536
CBS 399.69
Sagenomella diversispora*
MUCL 15012
Forest soil under Thuja
occidentalis, Aberfoyle,
Ontario, Canada
JN121674
JN121513
JN121819
JN121913
CBS 426.67
Sagenomella griseoviridis*
ATCC 18505 = IMI
113160
Unknown source
JN121677
JF417438
JF417404
JF417538
CBS 427.67IsoT
Sagenomella humicola*
ATCC 18506 = IMI
113166
Forest soil under Thuja
occidentalis; Ontario,
Canada
JN121678
JF417439
JF417405
JF417539
CBS 429.67IsoT
Sagenomella striatispora*
ATCC 18510 = IMI
113163
Soil; Guelph, Ontario,
Canada
JN121679
JF417440
JF417406
JF417540
CBS 414.78T
Sagenomella verticillata*
IAM 14697
Conifer forest soil,
Sweden
JN121676
JN121514
JN121820
JN121914
CBS 124.53NT
Sclerocleista ornata*
ATCC 16921 = IMI
055295 = MUCL 15643
= NRRL 2256
Soil in oak forest,
Dane Co., Madison,
Wisconsin, USA
JN121581
JN121440
JN121747
JN121888
CBS 105.25
Sclerocleista thaxteri*
IMI 055296 = NRRL
2292
Dung of caterpillar, USA
JN121560
JN121419
JN121726
JN121874
CBS 296.48T
Talaromyces bacillisporus*
ATCC 10126 = IMI
040045 = NRRL 1025
Begonia leaf; New York
City, New York, USA
JN121634
JF417425
JF417392
JF417525
CBS 100537T
Talaromyces convolutus*
IBT 14989
Soil, Kathmandu, Nepal
JN121553
JN121414
JN121721
JN121869
CBS 100536
Talaromyces emodensis*
IBT 14990
Soil; Kathmandu, Nepal
JN121552
JF417445
JF417411
JF417545
CBS 310.38NT
Talaromyces flavus*
IMI 197477 = NRRL
2098
Unknown substrate;
New Zealand
JN121639
JF417426
JF417393
JF417526
CBS 398.68T
Talaromyces leycettanus*
ATCC 22469 = IMI
178525
Coal spoil tip soil;
Leycett, Staffordshire,
England, UK
JN121672
JF417435
JF417402
JF417535
CBS 348.51NT
Talaromyces luteus*
IMI 089305
Soil, UK
JN121656
JF417429
JF417396
JF417529
CBS 475.71
Talaromyces purpureus*
ATCC 24069 = ATCC
52513 = FRR 1731 =
IMI 181546
Soil, near Esterel,
France
JN121687
JN121522
JN121828
JN121919
Talaromyces stipitatus1*
ATCC 10500 (= NRRL
1006 = CBS 375.48 =
IMI 39805)
Rotting wood;
Louisiana, USA
Unpublished
CBS 236.58T
Talaromyces thermophilus*
ATCC 10518 = IMI
048593 = NRRL 2155
Parthenium argentatum,
decaying plant;
California, USA
JN121611
JF417420
JF417387
JF417520
CBS 373.48T
Talaromyces trachyspermus*
ATCC 10497 = IMI
040043 = NRRL 1028
Unknown source, USA
JN121664
JF417432
JF417399
JF4174532
CBS 391.48NT
Talaromyces wortmanii*
ATCC 10517 = IMI
040047 = NRRL 1017
Unknown source
JN121669
JF417433
JF417400
JF417533
CBS 891.70
Thermoascus aurantiacus*
IMI 173037
Wood; Firenze, Italy
JN121719
JF417444
JF417410
JF417544
T
IsoT
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GenBank accession or reference1
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Table 1. (Continued).
CBS no.
Name
Other collections
Origin
GenBank accession or reference1
RPB1
RPB2
Tsr1
Cct8
CBS 396.78
Thermoascus aurantiacus*
JCM 12816
Sawdust, in lumber
yard, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
JN121671
JN121512
JN121818
JN121912
CBS 181.67T
Thermoascus crustaceus*
ATCC 16462 = IMI
126333
Parthenium argentatum,
decaying plant; Salinas,
California, USA
JN121591
JF417417
JF417384
JF417517
CBS 528.71NT
Thermoascus thermophilus*
IMI 123298 = NRRL
5208
Wood and bark of
Pinus; Sweden
JN121697
JF417442
JF417408
JF417542
CBS 218.34
Thermomyces lanuginosus*
MUCL 8338
Fruit shell of Theobroma
cacao
JN121599
JF417418
JF417385
JF417518
CBS 224.63
Thermomyces lanuginosus*
MUCL 8337
Mushroom compost;
Gossau-Zürich
Switzerland
JN121602
JF417419
JF417386
JF417519
CBS 334.68T
Thysanophora canadensis*
ATCC 18741 = IMI
137644 = MUCL 21216
Needle of Tsuga
canadensis, Bell’s
Corners, Ontario,
Canada
JN121647
JN121493
JN121799
JN121971
CBS 206.57T
Thysanophora taxi*
ATCC 18484 = MUCL
11402
Litter, Berlin, Germany
JN121597
JN121454
JN121761
JN121942
CBS 185.65
Torulomyces lagena*
MUCL 8221
Bog soil under Thuja
plicata, Guelph, Ontario,
Canada
JN121593
JN121450
JN121757
JN121866
CBS 247.57
Trichocoma paradoxa*
MUCL 39666 = IBT
31159
Unknown source;
Hachijô, Japan
JN121617
JF417421
JF417388
JF417521
CBS 103.73
Trichocoma paradoxa*
Unknown source, Japan
JN121558
JN121417
JN121724
JN121872
CBS 788.83
Trichocoma paradoxa*
Rotting stump of cut
down tree, Myojoji
Temple near Hakui Noto
Park, Ishikawa Pref.,
Japan
JN121718
JN121550
JN121856
JN121941
CBS 512.65NT
Warcupiella spinulosa*
ATCC 16919 = IMI
075885 = NRRL 4376
Jungle soil; BerakasMuara, Brunei
JN121692
JF417441
JF417407
JF417541
CBS 236.71T
Xeromyces bisporus*
IMI 063718
Mouldy stick of liquorice, JN121612
Homebush, New South
Wales, Australia
JN121466
JN121773
JN121898
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Sequences derived from published full genome data. * Strains used in the study of Trichocomaceae (Fig. 1); ** Strains used in for the preparation of Figs 1 and 7. CBS,
culture collection of the CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands (WDCM 133) http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/databases/index.htm; DTO, internal culture
collection of CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre; IMI, CABI Genetic Resources Collection, Surrey, UK (WDCM 214) http://www.cabi.org/; IBT, culture collection of Center
for Microbial Biotechnology (CMB) at Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark (WDCM 758) http://www.biocentrum.dtu.dk/; NRRL, ARS Culture
Collection, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois, USA (WDCM 97) http://nrrl.ncaur.usda.gov/; ATCC, American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA
(WDCM 1) http://www.atcc.org/; MUCL, Mycotheque de l’Universite catholique de Louvain, Leuven, Belgium (WDCM 308).
(Gelperin et al. 2001, Léger-Silvestre et al. 2004). Partial RPB2
data was obtained for the majority of species listed in Table
S1. Exceptions are strains used in the study of Houbraken et
al. (2011c); in that case, published partial β-tubulin sequences
were used.
The RPB1 fragment was amplified using the primer pair
RPB1-F1843 and R3096, and RPB1-R2623 was occasionally used
as an internal primer for sequencing. A part of the RPB2 locus was
amplified using the primer pair RPB2-5F and RPB2-7CR (Liu et
al. 1999) or the primer pair RPB2-5F_Eur and RPB2-7CR_Eur.
The internal sequencing primers RPB2-F311 and RPB2-R310
were occasionally used when poor results were obtained with
the regular forward and reverse primers. Amplification of a part
of the Cct8 gene was performed using the primer pair Cct8-F660
and Cct8-R1595. No amplicons could be obtained in the case of
5–10 % of the analysed strains. In those cases, amplicons were
generated using the primer pair Cct8-R1595 and Cct8-F94. A part
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of the Tsr1 gene was amplified using the forward primers Tsr1F1526Pc or Tsr1-F1526 in combination with Tsr1-R2434. Annealing
temperatures and primers used for amplification and sequencing
are shown in Table 2.
The PCR reactions were performed in 25 μL reaction mixtures
containing 1 μL genomic DNA 2.5 μL PCR buffer, 0.75 µL MgCl2 (50
mM), 16.55 μL demineralised sterile water, 1.85 μL dNTP (1 mM),
0.50 μL of each primer (100 mM) and 0.1 μL Taq polymerase (5 U/
μL, BioTaq, Bioline). The PCR program typically was: 5 cycles of 30
s denaturation at 94 °C, followed by primer annealing for 30 s at 51
°C, and extension for 1 min at 72 °C; followed by 5 cycles with an
annealing temperature at 49 °C and 30 cycles at 47 °C, finalised
with an extension for final 10 min at 72 °C. Excess primers and
dNTP’s were removed from the PCR product using the QIAQuick
PCR purification kit (Qiagen). Purified PCR fragments were
resuspended in 30–50 μL of water. PCR products were sequenced
directly in both directions with the same primers and DYEnamic
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Table 2. Primers used in this study for amplification and sequencing.
Locus
Primer
Sequence (5’–3’)
Annealing ( °C)
Fragment size (bp)
References
Cct8
F94
(Fwd) CGCAAC AAGATYGTBATYAACCA
50–52
F94-R1595: 1400–1450
Houbraken et al. 2011d
F660
(Fwd) GIGTKGTBAAGATCATGGGWGG
F660-R1595: 850–890
Houbraken et al. 2011d
ca. 1000
This study
RPB1
RPB2
Tsr1
R1595
(Rev) RTCMACRCCNGTIGTCCAGTA
F1843
(Fwd) ATTTYGAYGGTGAYGARATGAAC
R3096
(Rev) GRACRGTDCCRTCATAYTTRACC
This study
R2623
GCRTTGTTSARATCCTTMARRCTC
This study
5F
GAYGAYMGWGATCAYTTYGG
7CR
CCCATRGCTTGYTTRCCCAT
Liu et al. 1999
5F_Eur
(Fwd) GAYGAYCGKGAYCAYTTCGG
Houbraken et al. 2011d
48–51
ca. 1220
Liu et al. 1999
7CR_Eur
(Rev) CCCATRGCYTGYTTRCCCAT
Houbraken et al. 2011d
F311
CATGATYCARCGIAAYATGGA
This study
R310
CCATRTTICGYTGRATCATGAA
F1526Pc
(Fwd) GARTAYCCBCARTCNGAGATGT
F1626
(Fwd) GARTAYCCBCARTCNGAIATGT
This study
R2434
(Rev) ASAGYTGVARDGCCTTRAACCA
Houbraken et al. 2011d
ET Terminator Cycle Sequencing Kit (Amersham Bioscience,
Roosendaal, The Netherlands). The cycle sequencing reaction
mixture had a total reaction volume of 10 μL, and contained 1 μL
of template DNA, 0.85 µL BigDye reagent, 3 μL buffer, 4.75 µL
demineralised water and 0.4 μL primer (10 mM).
Sequencing products were purified according to the
manufacturers’ recommendations with Sephadex G-50 superfine
columns (Amersham Bioscience, Roosendaal, The Netherlands) in
a multiscreen HV plate (Millipore, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
and with MicroAmp Optical 96-well reaction plate (AB Applied
Biosystems, Nieuwerkerk a/d Yssel, The Netherlands). Contigs
were assembled using the forward and reverse sequences with the
programme SeqMan from the LaserGene package (DNAStar Inc.,
Madison, WI).
Phylogenetic analysis
The protein coding nucleotide sequences were translated into
amino acid data prior to alignment and subsequently aligned using
the Muscle software in the MEGA5 package. After aligning, the
amino acid data were translated into nucleotide data and used in the
phylogenetic analysis. Combined sequence data sets were used
in the study on the phylogeny of Trichocomaceae and Penicillium.
Before combining the data sets, each data set was analysed using
RAxML (Stamatakis et al. 2008). The number of bootstrap runs was
set to 100. The program compat.py (from http://www.lutzonilab.net)
was used to detect major topological incongruences among single
gene data sets (Kauff & Lutzoni 2002). Conflicts were considered
significant when a sequence was differentially resolved between
two gene trees with greater than 70 % bootstrap support. If no
conflicts were detected, then the data sets were combined.
Statistical support was measured by Maximum Likelihood
(ML) analysis using the RAxML (randomised axelerated maximum
likelihood) software (Stamakis et al. 2008). The robustness of trees
in the ML analyses was evaluated by 1000 bootstrap replications. A
second measure for statistical support was performed by Bayesian
tree inference (BI) analysis using MrBayes v. 3.1.2 (Ronquist &
Huelsenbeck 2003). Prior to analysis, the most suitable substitution
model was determined using MrModeltest v. 2.3 (Nylander 2004),
utilising the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC). The Bayesian
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48–53
This study
48–50
ca. 820
Houbraken et al. 2011d
analysis was performed with two sets of four chains (one cold
and three heated) and the stoprule option, stopping the analysis
at an average standard deviation of split frequencies of 0.01. The
sample frequency was set to 100; the first 25 percent of trees were
removed as burnin. The phylograms obtained with the RAxML
analysis were used for presenting the data. Bootstrap values lower
than 70 % were considered unreliable because their wide range of
error and Bayesian posterior probabilities are considered unreliable
below 0.95 (Murphy et al. 2001, Wilcox et al. 2002, Alfaro & Holder
2006). Therefore, only posterior probability (pp) values higher than
0.95 and bootstrap (bs) values higher than 70 % were plotted on
those phylograms. Coccidioides immitis (strain RS), a member of
Onygenales, was chosen to root the phylogram used in the study
on the relationships of Penicillium species among Trichocomaceae.
Penicillium (= Talaromyces) marneffei ATCC 18227T was selected
as an outgroup for the analysis of the phylogeny of Penicillium.
Various phylograms were prepared for assignment of species to
sections. All data sets were based on partial RPB2 sequences and
rooted with Talaromyces flavus CBS 310.38NT, with exception of
the phylogram of sections Lanata-divaricata and Stolkia, which is
based on partial β-tubulin data. Penicillium glabrum CBS 125543T
was used as an outgroup.
RESULTS
Phylogeny of Trichocomaceae
A phylogenetic study using four combined loci (RPB1, RPB2, Cct8
and Tsr1) was conducted to determine the relationship among
members of Trichocomaceae. A total of 157 species were included
in the analysis and the total length of the alignment was 3 111
characters, 1 939 of those characters were variable. The length of
the Cct8, Tsr1, RPB1 and RPB2 partitions were 714, 669, 768, 960
base pairs long, respectively. The GTR+I+G model was optimal for
all four partitions.
The result of the analysis is shown in Fig. 1 and indicates that
Trichocomaceae can be divided into three lineages. Lineage 1 is
divided into seven clades (clades 1–7) and these clades are on
a well-supported branch (100 % bs, 1.00 pp). The type species
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
Table 3. Details of each analysis of the data sets used for generating Figs 8, 10–13.
Figure
Clades, acc. Fig. 7
Locus
No. isolates
Length alignment
Best-fit model
8
1, 2, 3
RPB2
50
916
SYM+I+G
10
6, 7, 10 and 13
RPB2
69
916
GTR+I+G
11
11, 12
β-tubulin
45
528
HKY+I+G
12
5, 14
RPB2
44
849
SYM+I+G
13
15–25
RPB2
86
916
GTR+I+G
of the genera Chromocleista (C. malachitea), Eladia (E. saccula),
Eupenicillium (E. crustaceum), Hemicarpenteles (H. paradoxus),
Penicillium (P. expansum), Thysanophora (T. penicillioides) and
Torulomyces (T. lagena) belong to clade 1. This clade is named
Penicillium sensu stricto and is divided into two subclades: clade 1A
and 1B. The types of subgenera Aspergilloides and Furcatum are
accommodated in clade 1A and the type of subgenus Penicillium
belongs to clade 1B. Clade 2 is moderately supported (< 70 % bs,
1.00 pp) and contains the type species of the genera Aspergillus
(A. glaucus), Cristaspora (C. arxii), Phialosimplex (P. caninus),
Polypaecilum (P. insolitum) and the teleomorphs of Aspergillus
(Fennellia, Eurotium, Emericella, Neocarpenteles, Dichotomyces,
Neosartorya, Sclerocleista). Not all teleomorph genera of
Aspergillus are represented in our analysis; however, previous
data has shown the genera Chaetosartorya, Neopetromyces and
Petromyces also belong to this lineage (Peterson 2008). This clade
is subdivided into six groups. Four of the six groups represent the
Aspergillus subgenera as defined by Peterson (2008). In addition,
also Aspergillus section Cremei and a clade with Phialosimplex and
Polypaecilum are present. Clade 3 comprises the type species of
Hamigera (H. avellanea), Warcupiella (W. spinosa) and Raperia (R.
spinulosa) but this clade is poorly supported (< 70 % bs, < 0.95 pp).
Clade 4 contains P. clavariiformis, the type species Penicilliopsis.
The type species of the genera Basipetospora (B. rubra), Fraseriella
(F. bisporus), Leiothecium (L. ellipsoideum), Monascus (M. ruber),
Xeromyces (X. bisporus) cluster together in clade 5. Phialomyces
(P. macrosporus) and Sclerocleista (S. ornata) belong to clade 6
and 7, respectively. Lineage 2 is subdivided into two clades: the
type species of Thermoascus, Coonemeria and Dactylomyces
belong to clade 8, and the types of the genera Byssochlamys
(B. nivea) and Paecilomyces (P. variotii) belong to clade 9. The
posterior probability value indicates a strong relationship between
these two clades (0.99); however, the maximum likelihood analysis
resulted in a bootstrap value lower than 70 % (67 %). The posterior
probability and bootstrap values are also contradictory regarding
the relationship between lineages 1 and 2 (< 70 % bs, 1.00 pp).
Lineage 3 is subdivided into five clades (clades 10–14) and these
clades are on a strongly supported branch (100 % bs, 1.00 pp).
Clade 10 is centered on the type species of Talaromyces, T. flavus,
and the type species of Sagenoma (S. viride) also belongs in
this clade. The type species of Thermomyces (T. lanuginosus),
Sagenomella (S. diversispora), Rasamsonia (R. emersonii) and
Trichocoma (T. paradoxa) belong in clades 11–14, respectively.
Phylogeny of Penicillium sensu stricto
The phylogenetic relationship among members of Penicillium s. str.
was studied using the same four combined loci (RPB1, RPB2, Cct8
and Tsr1). In total, 72 strains were included in the analysis and
the total length of the alignment was 3 393 characters, and 1 805
of them were variable. Penicillium (= Talaromyces) marneffei was
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used as an outgroup. The length of the Cct8, Tsr1, RPB1 and RPB2
partitions were 723, 759, 955, 957 base pairs, respectively. The
best-fit model GTR+I+G was optimal for all four partitions. The result
of the analysis is shown in Fig. 7 and confirms the result above that
Penicillium s. str. can be divided into two distinct lineages. Similarly,
the type species of subgenus Aspergilloides, P. aurantiobrunneum
(= P. glabrum) and Furcatum (P. citrinum), belong to lineage 1 and
the type of subgenus Penicillium belongs to lineage 2. Lineage 1
is subdivided in 14 clades (Fig. 7). These clades (1–14) were in
most cases supported with a bootstrap value higher than 95 %
and a posterior probability of 1.00. Lineage 2 is subdivided into
11 clades (15–25). Clades 20–25 are on well-supported branches;
however, the overall bootstrap and posterior probability values of
clades 15–19 are low. The numbering of the clades is therefore
based on the analysis of the partial β-tubulin data in Samson et
al. (2004), because well-supported clades (sections) were present
in that phylogenetic treatment. Five separate phylograms (Figs 8,
10–13) were prepared in order to determine which species belong
to which clade (section). Details of these analyses are summarised
in Table 3.
Discussion
Part One: Phylogenetic analysis of Trichocomaceae
Choice of genes
Parts of the RPB1, RPB2, Tsr1 and Cct8 genes were only used for
the construction of the phylogenetic relationships among members
of Trichocomaceae and Penicillium species, and the ability of these
genes for species recognition remains largely unexplored. The
regions E and F (according Matheny et al. 2002) of the RPB1 gene
were analysed. No additional sequence data of Trichocomaceae
were published on this part of the RPB1 gene and comparison with
other studies is therefore difficult. The regions 5–7 of the RPB2
gene are commonly used in taxonomic studies of Penicillium and
Aspergillus and proved to be a good marker for species recognition
(e.g. Peterson 2008, Serra et al. 2008, Peterson & Horn 2009,
Peterson et al. 2010, Barreto et al. 2011). However, RPB1 and
RPB2, as well as TEF1α, β-tubulin, and γ-actin, were not found
among the best performing genes for fungal systematics (Aguileta
et al. 2008). Aguileta et al. (2008) studied, using a bioinformatics
approach, the performance of single-copy protein-coding genes
for fungal phylogenetics. Their analyses of 30 published fungal
genomes revealed that MCM7 (= MS456), Tsr1 (= MS277)
and Cct8 (= FG610) were among the best single-copy genes in
phylogenetic utility. MCM7, the best gene for recovering a largerscale phylogeny across fungal groups, was excluded in the current
study since it was not variable enough within the genus Penicillium
(Marthey et al. 2008). Tsr1 and Cct8 were also used in other
(phylogenetic) studies of groups belonging to Trichocomaceae
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CBS 209.28LT Penicillium adametzii
CBS 229.60T Eupenicillium hirayamae
*/*
CBS 647.95HT Chromocleista malachita
CBS 117503HT Penicillium thiersii
*/92
*/62
CBS 125543NT Penicillium glabrum
*/*
*/55
CBS 119387HT Penicillium coffeae
CBS 304.48T Penicillium charlesii
CBS 277.58T Penicillium griseolum
*/*
CBS 334.68T Thysanophora canadensis
0.98/53
CBS 206.57
206 57T Thysanophora taxi
0.97/*/*
CBS 489.66T Eupenicillium ochrosalmoneum
0.95/CBS 247.56T Penicillium isariiforme
*/*
CBS 251.56T Penicillium ramusculum
CBS 190.68T Eupenicillium ornatum
*/*
CBS 341.68T Eupenicillium idahoense
CBS 490.66T Eupenicillium cinnamopurpureum
*/*
CBS 353.48T Geosmithia namyslowskii
-/*/*
CBS 343.48T Eupenicillium lapidosum
CBS 247.67T Eupenicillium katangense
*/92
-/88
CBS 258.29NT Penicillium citreonigrum
g
*/*
CBS 352.67T Eupenicillium catenatum
T
0.97/68
CBS 456.70 Penicillium dimorphosporum
*/88
CBS 340.48NT Penicillium janthinellum
-/*/*
CBS 341.48T Eupenicillium javanicum
*/*
CBS 372.48NT Penicillium simplicissimum
CBS 315.67T Eupenicillium stolkiae
*/78
*/*
CBS 116871T Penicillium macrosclerotiorum
*/95
CBS 599.73T Eupenicillium gracilentum
*/*
CBS 351.67T Eupenicillium inusitatum
CBS 124.68T Eupenicillium fractum
*/*
/
CBS 139.45
139 45T Penicillium citrinum
*/81
*/*
CBS 290.48T Eupenicillium shearii
CBS 323.71NT Eupenicillium euglaucum
*/86
CBS 271.89T Eupenicillium cryptum
CBS 185.65 Torulomyces lagena
CBS 277.70T Eupenicillium lassenii
Penicillium s. str. */88
*/*
*/*
Wisconsin 54-1255 Penicillium chrysogenum
-/CBS 344.61T Eupenicillium crustaceum
*/*
CBS 185.27NT Penicillium griseofulvum
*/*
CBS 325.48NT Penicillium expansum
CBS 527.65T Hemicarpenteles paradoxus
*/*
*/*
CBS 232.60NT Penicillium olsonii
*/*
*/*
CBS 430.69T Eupenicillium tularense
CBS 106.11T Penicillium lanosum
*/99
CBS 231.61NTEladia saccula (=Penicillium sacculum)
CBS 300.48NT Penicillium canescens
*/*
CBS 272.89 Aspergillus togoensis
*/*
CBS 553.77T Aspergillus coremiiformis
*/99
NRRL 3357 Aspergillus flavus
*/*
CBS 151.66T Aspergillus leporis
CBS 109.46NT Aspergillus avenaceus
0.96/*/*
/
CBS 108.08
108 08NT Aspergillus ochraceus
CBS 112812T Aspergillus steynii
*/99
CBS 649.93T Aspergillus robustus
0.94/*/*
CBS 260.73T Fennellia flavipes
1.00/CBS 653.74T Aspergillus aureofulgens
Incl. sections Circumdati, Flavi,
1.00/93
NIH 2624 Aspergillus terreus
Candidi, Flavipedes, Nigri,
0.96/T
CBS 118.45 Aspergillus janus
*/99
Terrei
CBS 566.65NT Aspergillus candidus
CBS 463.65NT Aspergillus arenarius
*/77
T
-/- */*
CBS 172.66 Aspergillus aculeatus
CBS 513.88 Aspergillus niger
*/
*/*/*
CBS 245.65 Aspergillus versicolor
*/99
CBS 264.81 Aspergillus sydowii
0.98/51
FGSC A4 Emericella nidulans
CBS 600.67T Aspergillus amylovorus
*/*
CBS 656.73NT Aspergillus egyptiacus
*/98
*/96
Incl. sections Nidulantes, Usti,
CBS 121611 Aspergillus calidoustus
*/82
Ochraceorosei, Sparsi, (Aeni)
CBS 707.71T Aspergillus bisporus
*/96
CBS 101887 Aspergillus ochraceoroseus
*/59
*/*
CBS 116.56T Aspergillus funiculosus
*/90
CBS 139.61NT Aspergillus sparsus
CBS 468.65
468 65NT Aspergillus biplanus
*/85
CBS 476.65NT Aspergillus conjunctus
*/*
NRRL 1NT Aspergillus clavatus
*/90
CBS 558.71T Neocarpenteles acanthosporus
*/*
CBS 157.66NT Dichotomomyces cejpii
*/* NRRL 181NT Neosartorya fischeri
Incl. sections Fumigati, Clavati
*/96
Af293 Aspergillus fumigatus
and Cervini
NT
*/*
*/51
CBS 538.65 Aspergillus kanagawaensis
CBS 196.64NT Aspergillus cervinus
Aspergillus s. str.
-/53
*/95
Clade 1
Penicillium s. str.
Clade 1A: subgenus
Aspergilloides
Clade 1B: subgenus
P i illi
Penicillium
Clade 2
Aspergillus s. str.
subgenus Circumdati
subgenus Nidulantes
subgenus Fumigati
Fig. 1. Best-scoring Maximum Likelihood tree using RAxML based on combined data set of partial Cct8, Tsr1, RPB1 and RPB2 sequences showing the relationship among
members of Trichocomaceae. The BI posterior probabilities (pp) values and bootstrap (bs) percentages of the maximum likelihood (ML) analysis are presented at the nodes
(pp/bs). Values less than 50 % supported in the ML or less than 0.90 in the Bayesian analysis are indicated with a hyphen, whereas asterisks indicate full support (100 % bs or
1.00 pp). The branches with more than 95 % bootstrap support and 1.00 posterior probability values are thickened. The bar indicates the number of substitutions per site. The
tree is rooted with Coccidioides immitis (strain RS).
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*/*
Clade 2, ctd
Aspergillus s. str.
CBS 109945T Phialosimplex chlamydosporus
CBS 128032T Phialosimplex canicus
CBS 380.74T Basipetospora halophilica
*/*
*/*
CBS 384.61T Polypaecilum insolitum
*/*
CBS 101166 Polypaecilum
yp
p
pisci
-/CBS 366.77T Phialosimplex sclerotialis
NT
*/89
CBS 578.65 Aspergillus pulvinus
*/94
CBS 525.83T Cristaspora arxii
*/97
CBS 104.07NT Aspergillus wentii
CBS 127.61NT Aspergillus brunneo-uniseriatus
*/64
*/*
CBS 516.65NT Eurotium herbariorum
*/77
CBS 518.65NT Eurotium amstelodami
*/*
CBS 117.33NT Aspergillus restrictus
Lineage 1
Incl. sections
DTO 11C3 Aspergillus penicillioides
Aspergillaceae
*/* CBS 622.67T Aspergillus penicilliformis
-/*/*
/
295 48IsoT Hamigera avellanea
CBS 295.48
-/CBS 256.55NT Penicillium megasporum
-/CBS 512.65NT Warcupiella spinulosa
*/94
CBS 377.48NT Hamigera striata
0.92/CBS 398.68T Talaromyces leycettanus
*/*
CBS 761.68 Penicilliopsis clavariiformis
CBS 506.65NT Aspergillus zonatus
*/*
CBS 113675 Monascus lunisporas
*/99
CBS 109402T Monascus argentinensis
*/85
0.98/68
CBS 109.07T Monascus purpureus
*/*
CBS 236.71T Xeromyces bisporus
*/*
*/57
CBS 132.31T Chrysosporium inops
CBS 607.74T Leiothecium ellipsoideum
-/CBS 473.65NT Aspergillus clavatoflavus
*/*
CBS 430.64IsoT Phialomyces macrosporus
*/95
CBS 220.66IsoT Penicillium arenicola
*/*
CBS 124.53NT Sclerocleista ornata
CBS 105.25 Sclerocleista thaxteri
*/97
CBS 181.67T Thermoascus crustaceus
*/91
CBS 528.71NT Thermoascus thermophilus
*/*
CBS 605.74T Byssochlamys verrucosa
*/* CBS 396.78
396 78 Thermoascus aurantiacus
CBS 891.70 Thermoascus aurantiacus
*/*
CBS 101075T Byssochlamys spectabilis (=Paecilomyces variotii)
0.99/67
CBS 100.11NT Byssochlamys nivea
*/*
ATCC 18224T Penicillium marneffei
*/97
CBS 322.48AUT Penicillium duclauxii
Lineage 2
*/90
CBS 310.38NT Talaromyces flavus
*/85
Thermoascaceae
CBS 414.78T Sagenomella verticillata
*/89
CBS 252.87T Geosmithia viridis
0.93/77
CBS 114.72IsoT Sagenoma viride
*/*
ATCC 10500IsoT Talaromyces stipitatus
*/*
CBS 545.86
545 86T Sagenomella
S
ll b
bohemica
h i
*/*
CBS 350.66T Paecilomyces aerugineus
NT
*/*
CBS 267.72 “Aphanoascus cinnabarinus”
*/*
CBS 642.68NT Penicillium mineoluteum
*/*
CBS 373.48T Talaromyces trachyspermus
*/94
CBS 100537T Talaromyces convolutus
*/*
*/*
CBS 475.71IsoT Talaromyces purpureus
CBS 660.80T Penicillium dendriticum
*/99
CBS 100536T Talaromyces emodensis
*/88
CBS 296.48T Talaromyces bacillisporus
*/75
*/*
CBS 338.48NT Penicillium islandicum
CBS 391.48NT Talaromyces wortmanii
*/* CBS 218.34 Thermomyces lanuginosus
*/*
CBS 224.63 Thermomyces lanuginosus
*/99
CBS 236.58T Talaromyces thermophilus
0.98/72
CBS 348.51 Talaromyces luteus
*/* CBS 399.69 Sagenomella diversispora
*/93 CBS 398.69 Sagenomella diversispora
*/*
CBS 426.67 Sagenomella griseoviride
*/*
*/*
CBS 429.67IsoT Sagenomella striatispora
CBS 427.67IsoT Sagenomella humicola
*/99
CBS 393.64
393 64T Rasamsonia emersonii
Lineage 3
0.92/76
CBS 413.71T Rasamsonia byssochlamydoides
Trichocomaceae */*
CBS 101.69T Rasamsonia argillacea
*/97
CBS 275.58NT Rasamsonia cylindrospora
CBS 247.57 Trichocoma paradoxa
*/*
CBS 788.83 Trichocoma paradoxa
CBS 103.73 Trichocoma paradoxa
Strain “RS” Coccidioides immitis
0.99/-
*/*
Phialosimplex & Polypaecilum
Aspergillus section Cremei
subgenus Aspergillus
Restricti, Aspergillus
Clade 3: Hamigera, Warcupiella
Clade 4: Penicilliopsis
Clade 5: Monascus, Xeromyces
Leiothecium
Clade 6: Phialomyces
Clade 7: Sclerocleista
Clade 8: Thermoascus
Clade 9: Byssochlamys/Paecilomyces
Clade 10:Talaromyces
s. str.
Clade 11: Thermomyces
Clade 12: Sagenomella
Clade 13: Rasamsonia
Clade 14: Trichocoma
0.1
Fig. 1. (Continued).
(López-Villavicencio et al. 2010, Peterson et al. 2010). Analysis of
the Tsr1 gene generated the best resolved trees, when compared
with Cct8, MCM7 and ITS (López-Villavicencio et al. 2010).
The sequenced parts of the RPB1, RPB2, Tsr1 and Cct8 genes
mainly contain exons, and the alignment of these loci is therefore
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unambiguous. This is the main advantage over ITS regions where
alignment above genus can be difficult. Furthermore, the ITS
region is generally considered unreliable as a phylogenetic marker,
especially above genus rank. β-tubulin and calmodulin sequences
are often used in taxonomical studies of Penicillium, Paecilomyces
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and Aspergillus (e.g. Samson et al. 2004, Houbraken et al. 2007,
Samson et al. 2009, Varga et al. 2011). However, a large part of
these genes consists of intron data and these regions cannot be
aligned above genus level, resulting in loss of information in these
data sets. In addition, there is evidence that β-tubulins are present
in the genome in multiple copies and thus have the potential of
being phylogenetically misleading (Landvik et al. 2001, Peterson
2008).
Phylogenetic analysis of Trichocomaceae
Three lineages are recognised in Trichocomaceae (Fig. 1) and
we propose to treat these three lineages as distinct families:
Trichocomaceae, Aspergillaceae and Thermoascaceae. Lineage
1 corresponds with Aspergillaceae and this name is the oldest
available family name within the analysed group of related genera.
Malloch & Cain (1972) did not accept this family name since it was
based on the asexual (anamorph) form-genus Aspergillus and
therefore not applicable for ascomycete perfect (sexual) states.
Because we are applying a single-name system and give priority
to the oldest name, the family name Aspergillaceae is re-instated.
Phylogenetically, Monascaceae belong to Aspergillaceae and this
is in agreement with other studies that show that Monascus (type
genus of Monascaceae) is related to Penicillium and/or Aspergillus
(Berbee et al. 1995, Ogawa et al. 1997, Ogawa & Sugiyama 2000,
Peterson 2008, Pettersson et al. 2011). In contrast, Stchigel et al.
(2004), who used ITS sequence data to determine the molecular
relationships of Monascaceae taxa, concluded that Monascus
and Xeromyces form a well-supported, monophyletic clade (81
% bs), separate from Eurotiales (Stchigel & Guarro 2007). These
contradictory results can be explained by a deeper taxon sampling
in this study combined with a phylogeny based on sequences
of four protein-coding genes instead of ITS sequences alone.
The Thermoascaceae (= lineage 2) were introduced by Apinis
(1967) and typified by Thermoascus. Lineage 3 corresponds
to Trichocomaceae and this family was introduced by Fischer
(1897) (as Trichocomataceae) and is typified by Trichocoma. The
Eurotiaceae were placed in synonymy with this family because
the name Trichocomaceae predates Eurotiaceae (Malloch & Cain
1972). The current analysis shows that Eurotiaceae (type genus
Eurotium) should be placed in synonymy with Aspergillaceae.
The family names Hemicarpenteleaceae, Penicilliopsidaceae,
Phialomycetaeae, Warcupiellaceae, Xeromycetaceae and
Talaromycetaceae were introduced by Locquin (1972, 1984) but all
lack a Latin description and are invalidly published.
Phenotypic classification and delimitation of
Aspergillaceae, Trichocomaceae and Thermoascaceae
Several studies on the classification of Trichocomaceae and
Eurotiales based on phenotypic characters were published
(Malloch & Cain 1972, Fennell 1973, Benny & Kimbrough 1980,
Malloch 1985a, b, von Arx 1987) and an overview of selected
studies is shown in Table 4. Some of these classifications differ
significantly from each other. We compared the results of these
studies with the current proposed phylogenetic classification
and this showed that our phylogenetic classification largely
corresponds with the phenotypic classification described by
Malloch (1985a, b). Malloch (1985a, b) divided Trichocomaceae
into two subfamilies, Trichomoideae and Dichlaenoideae, based
on phenotypic characters including cleistothecial initials, peridium,
ascus structure and ascospore morphology. Malloch’s list of genera
belonging to Dichlaenoideae largely corresponds with the genera
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we place in Aspergillaceae and his definition of Trichomoideae is
comparable with our phylogenetically defined Trichocomaceae.
There are two main differences: a) Monascus is treated here in
Aspergillaceae and b) the genera Byssochlamys and Thermoascus
are accommodated in Thermoascaceae; these were treated
by Malloch (1985a, b) in Trichomoideae and Dichlaenoideae,
respectively. Using the characters proposed by Malloch in his
classification, Aspergillaceae are characterised by the production
of asci inside cleistothecia, stromata, or are surrounded by Hülle
cells and mainly have oblate to ellipsoidal ascospores with a
furrow or slit. The conidia are mostly formed on flask shaped
or cylindrical phialides. The Trichocomaceae are defined by
having asci borne within a tuft or layer of loose hyphae, and
ascospores are lacking slits or furrows. The phialides of species
belonging to this family are mostly lanceolate or cylindrical. Apinis
(1967) introduced Thermoascaceae and noted that the common
essential character of genera of this family is the production of
firm, somewhat sclerotioid, pseudoparenchymatous cleistothecia.
The inclusion of Byssochlamys in this family does not fit in that
description because it produces almost naked ascomata. Based
on the relative branch length in Fig. 1, another possibility would be
to delimit the Thermoascus clade (clade 8) and the Byssochlamys/
Paecilomyces clade (clade 9) as separate families. However,
there are characters shared by Thermoascus and Byssochlamys
including the production of asci in croziers and the formation of
smooth or finely roughened ascospores lacking a furrow or slit.
The relationship between these two genera is also illustrated
by Byssochlamys verrucosa and Thermoascus crustaceus.
Byssochlamys verrucosa phenotypically belongs to Byssochlamys,
but is positioned phylogenetically in Thermoascus (Fig. 1) and
Therm. crustaceus shares a Paecilomyces anamorph with
members of the Byssochlamys/Paecilomyces clade. In addition,
most members of both genera are thermotolerant or thermophilic.
The genera Chaetosartorya, Cristaspora, Dichlaena,
Dichotomomyces, Eupenicillium, Edyuillia, Emericella, Eurotium,
Hamigera, Hemicarpenteles, Hemisartorya, Neosartorya,
Penicilliopsis, Petromyces, Sclerocleista, Thermoascus and
Warcupiella were placed by Malloch (1985 a, b) in Aspergillaceae (as
subfamily Dichlaenoideae). The majority of these genera are also
included in our classification, and exceptions are Edyuilla, which
is synonymised with Eurotium (von Arx 1974) and Thermoascus,
which is classified in Thermoascaceae. The main difference is
the placement of Monascaceae is Aspergillaceae. Benny &
Kimbrough (1980) placed the genera Ascorhiza, Leiothecium,
Monascus and Xeromyces in Monascaceae and suggested a
relationship with Ascosphaerales. Later, several authors included
this family in Pezizales (Malloch 1981, Hawksworth & Pitt 1983).
Von Arx (1987), in his revision of Eurotiales, included Monascus
in Onygenaceae, and reduced Monascaceae to synonymy. More
recently, Monascaceae was placed in Eurotiales (LoBuglio et al.
1993, Hawksworth et al. 1995). Fennell (1973) noted that species
of both Monascaceae and Eurotiaceae, which approximates
our definition Aspergillaceae, form a distinct cleistothecial wall.
Nevertheless, Fennell (1973) separated these families based on
the formation of aleurioconidia by members of Monascaceae,
but our results show that this feature is insufficient for family
delimitation. Anamorph genera were not treated by Malloch
(1985a, b) and Fig. 1 shows that the genera Aspergillus,
Basipetospora, Eladia, Fraseriella, Penicillium, Phialomyces,
Phialosimplex, Polypaecilum, Thysanophora and Torulomyces
are classified in Aspergillaceae. The teleomorph genera
Chromocleista, Fennellia, Neocarpenteles and Neopetromyces,
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
Table 4. Overview of the classifications of the Trichocomaceae and Eurotiaceae by Benny & Kimbrough (1980), Malloch (1985b), von
Arx (1987) and the current study.
Benny & Kimbrough (1980)
von Arx (1987)
Malloch (1985b)
Current study
Trichocomaceae:
Eurotiaceae:
Trichomoideae:
Aspergillaceae:
Aphanoascus
Chaetosartorya
Byssochlamys
Aspergillus (incl. teleomorphs, syn. Stilbothamnium)
Byssochlamys
Cristaspora
Dendrosphaera
Hamigera (incl. Merimbla)
Chaetosartorya
Dichlaena
Sagenoma
Leiothecium
Dichotomomyces
Talaromyces
Monascus (incl. Basipetospora)
Dichleana
Emericella
Trichocoma
Penicilliopsis
Edyuillia
Eupenicillium
Dichlaenoideae:
Penicillium (syn. Chromocleista, Eladia, Eupenicillium,
Hemicarpenteles, Thysanophora, Torulomyces)
Emericella
Eurotium
Chaetosartorya
Phialomyces
Eupenicillium
Fennellia
Cristaspora
Phialosimplex
Eurotium
Hemicarpenteles
Dichlaena
Polypaecilum
Fennellia
Mallochia2
Dichotomomyces
Sclerocleista
Hamigera
Neosartorya
Eupenicillium
Warcupiella (incl. Raperia)
Hemicarpenteles
Saitoa
Edyuillia (=Eurotium)
Xeromyces
Hemisartorya
Emericella
Thermoascaceae:
Neosartorya
Eurotium
Paecilomyces (incl. Byssochlamys)
Penicilliopsis
Fennellia
Thermoascus (syn. Coonemeria, Dactylomyces)
Petromyces
Hamigera
Trichocomaceae:
Roumegueriella1
Hemicarpenteles
Dendrosphaera (tentatively, fide Malloch 1985b)
Sagenoma
Hemisartorya
Rasamsonia
Sclerocleista
Neosartorya
Sagenomella
Talaromyces
Penicilliopsis
Talaromyces (syn. Sagenoma, Erythrogymnotheca)
Trichocoma
Petromyces
Thermomyces
Warcupiella
Sclerocleista
Trichocoma
Monascaceae:
Thermoascus
Unknown status:
Ascorhiza
Warcupiella
Ascorhiza (no strains available/studied)
3
Leiothecium
Pseudocordyceps
Monascus
Sarophorum
Xeromyces
Dichleana
Benny & Kimbrough (1980) accommodated Roumegueriella in the Trichocomaceae; however, Sung et al. (2007) showed that this genus belongs to the Bionectriaceae
(Hypocreales) and is excluded in our study of the Trichocomaceae. 2The type species Mallochia, M. echinulata, has a close relationship with Amaurascopsis reticulata and
both species belong to the Onygenales (Solé et al. 2002). 3Comparison of the ITS sequence of the type strain of the type of Hemisartorya, H. maritima (CBS 186.77), showed
to have a 100 % homology with the type of A. versicolor CBS 583.65 (J. Houbraken, unpubl. data).
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which were not treated in Malloch’s study (1985a, b), also belong
to this family.
The genera Byssochlamys, Dendrosphaera, Sagenoma,
Talaromyces and Trichocoma were placed by Malloch (1985a, b)
in Trichocomaceae (as subfamily Trichomoideae), and anamorphs
in Paecilomyces or Penicillium were linked to it. The results of
our phylogenetic analysis (Fig. 1) confirm the positioning of the
genera Sagenoma, Talaromyces and Trichocoma in this family. In
addition, the recently described genus Rasamsonia (Houbraken
et al. 2011d), and the asexual genera Thermomyces and
Sagenomella are classified in this family. Phylogenetic analysis
shows that Byssochlamys is more closely related to Thermoascus.
Fennell (1973) also observed the relationship between these two
genera and stated that Byssochlamys is transitional between
Thermoascaceae and Aspergillaceae (as Eurotiaceae). No strains
of the genus Dendrosphaera were available and its position remains
questionable. Kobayasi (1971) described an aleurioconidial state
in Dendrosphaera eberhardtii and Benny & Kimbrough (1980)
therefore suggested placing this species in Onygenales (which
makes Dendrosphaeraceae a family of Onygenales). On the other
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hand, Malloch (1985b) noted that D. eberhardtii and T. paradoxa
produce similar brushes of soft hyphae bearing asci and ascospores
suggesting the placement in Trichocomaceae. Following Malloch
(1985b), we tentatively place this genus in Trichocomaceae,
and consequently, Dendrosphaeraceae are synonymised with
Trichocomaceae.
Phylogeny of Aspergillaceae
Seven clades (Fig. 1, clades 1–7) can be distinguished in
Aspergillaceae. Each clade is discussed and phenotypic characters
of the members belonging to those clades are compared with those
of Penicillium.
Clade 1: Penicillium sensu stricto
Penicillium sensu lato is polyphyletic and species of this genus
occur in the phylogenetically redefined families Aspergillaceae
and Trichocomaceae (Fig. 1). The type species of Penicillium,
Penicillium expansum, and the type species of Eupenicillium, E.
crustaceum, form a clade within Aspergillaceae, defined here as
Penicillium sensu stricto. The Penicillia not belonging to Penicillium
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s. str. are mainly classified in Trichocomaceae, in a clade together
with the type species of Talaromyces, T. flavus (clade 10). The
presence of two major clades in Penicillium is concordant with
earlier studies using rDNA sequences (Berbee & Taylor 1995,
Ogawa et al. 1997, Sugiyama 1998, Ogawa & Sugiyama 2000,
Tamura et al. 2000). More recently, Wang & Zhuang (2007)
used partial calmodulin sequences for the phylogenetic analysis
of Penicillium and their data also supported the presence of
two lineages in Trichocomaceae. However, their placement of
Talaromyces trachyspermus on a single lineage is contradictory
with our data. The Penicillium s. str. clade is most closely related
to the Aspergillus clade (clade 2) and is phylogenetically more
distant from genera with similar anamorphs such as Paecilomyces,
Merimbla and the Penicillium species assigned to Trichocomaceae
in this study. The phylogenetic study shows that various other
genera belong to Penicillium s. str. The type species of the genera
Chromocleista, Torulomyces, Thysanophora, Hemicarpenteles
and Eladia are positioned in Penicillium s. str. These genera are
considered here as synonyms of Penicillium, and the species
are transferred as appropriate. Two well-supported subclades
(Fig. 1A, B) can be distinguished within Penicillium s. str. Pitt
(1980) classified Penicillium in four subgenera: Aspergilloides,
Furcatum, Penicillium and Biverticillium. This system was mainly
based on conidiophore branching and shape of the phialides. The
type species of subgenus Penicillium (P. expansum) belongs to
clade 1B and mainly comprises the species which are ter- and/or
quarterverticillate. The type species of the subgenera Aspergilloides
and Furcatum (P. aurantiobrunneum (= P. glabrum) and P. citrinum,
respectively) are positioned in clade 1A, and monoverticillate and
biverticillate species with flask shaped phialides more frequently
occur in this clade. The type species of subgenus Biverticillium,
Penicillium minioluteum, does not belong to Penicillium s. str. and
is recombined as Talaromyces minioluteus elsewhere (Samson et
al. 2011). Species with symmetrical biverticillate conidiophores and
lanceolate phialdes belong to this clade. These observations confirm
other studies that also showed that the current phenotype-based
subgeneric classification, which is mainly based on the branching
system of the Penicillium conidiophores, is incongruent with the
molecular phylogeny (Peterson 2000a, Wang & Zhuang 2007). It
is proposed here to abandon the current subgeneric classification
and to synonymise subgenus Furcatum with Aspergilloides,
because the latter is an older name. The subgenera Aspergilloides
and Penicillium correspond to clades 1A and 1B, respectively. The
phylogenetic structure within these clades is examined with more
depth in Part 3 of the discussion.
Clade 2: Aspergillus
A limited number of Aspergillus species and related teleomorphs are
included in this study. The majority of the studied Aspergillus strains
form a clade with 51 % bootstrap and 1.00 posterior probability
support and this clade is defined here as Aspergillus sensu stricto.
Aspergillus s. str. is phylogenetically closely related to Penicillium s.
str. (77 % bs, 1.00 pp). These genera are morphologically distinct.
Aspergillus forms nonseptate stipes, which often terminate in a
distinct inflated part (vesicle) and have a foot-cell (Raper & Fennell
1965). Furthermore, the phialides are produced synchronously
from the vesicle in Aspergillus. The distinction between these two
genera is largely supported by the phylogeny. However, there are
a few exceptions. Aspergillus paradoxus, A. crystallinus and A.
malodoratus phylogenetically belong to Penicillium (R.A. Samson,
unpubl. data). However, Raper & Fennell (1965) also noted that A.
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crystallinus and A. malodoratus produce triseriate structures that
resemble Penicillium. In addition, there are also Aspergilli, which
look similar to Penicillium. An example is Penicillium inflatum,
which phylogenetically belongs to Aspergillus section Cremei and
will be transferred from Penicillium to Aspergillus (R.A. Samson,
unpubl. data). In addition, Aspergillus sydowii regularly produces
small penicilli, and A. restrictus can produce diminutive vesiculate
monoverticillate stipes, similar in appearance to those of some
Penicillium species.
The classification of the genus Aspergillus is traditionally based
on morphological characters. Raper & Fennell (1965) divided the
genus into 18 groups. More recently, Peterson (2008) studied
the relationship among Aspergilli using a multigene phylogeny
and accepted 5 subgenera (Aspergillus, Circumdati, Fumigati,
Nidulantes and Ornati) and 16 sections. Our data largely corresponds
with Peterson’s phylogeny, and four of the six subclades in Fig.
1 represent the Aspergillus subgenera as defined by Peterson
(2008). However, there are some discrepancies. Sections Restricti
and Aspergillus of the subgenus Aspergillus are on a well supported
branch (100 % bs, 1.00 pp), confirming Peterson’s data. Peterson
(2008) placed sections Clavati and Fumigati in a single subgenus
and, because of lack of statistical support, tentatively placed
section Cervini in this subgenus. The representatives of section
Cervini (Aspergillus cervinus, A. kanagawaensis) used in our study
show that this section is basal to sections Fumigati and Clavati and
belongs in the subgenus Fumigati. This confirms the phenotypic
data of Gams et al. (1985), who placed sections Fumigati and
Cervini in subgenus Fumigati. Phylogenetically, the monophyletic
subgenus Circumdati as proposed by Peterson (2008) contains
sections Circumdati, Candidi, Flavi, Flavipedes, Nigri, Terrei and
Cremei. The relationship between the former six sections is poorly
supported in our analysis (30 % bs, 0.94 pp) and more studies on
the phylogenetic structure of Aspergillus are needed. In contrast
to previous published results (Peterson 1995, 2008), section
Cremei appeared to be unrelated to the other sections of subgenus
Circumdati. The studied members of section Cremei (A. pulvinus,
A. wentii, A. brunneouniseriatus) formed a well supported clade
with the type species of Cristaspora (C. arxii) and this clade is more
closely related to members of the subgenus Aspergillus (64 % bs,
1.00 pp) than to subgenus Circumdati. The subgenus Nidulantes
contains sections Nidulantes, Ochraceorosei, Usti, Sparsi and Aeni
(Frisvad et al. 2005, Peterson 2008, Varga et al. 2010). These
results were confirmed in our study, with exception of section Aeni,
because no representatives were included in our study. Section
Ornati in subgenus Ornati is not positioned in Aspergillus s. str.
and species belonging to this section are placed in the clade 7.
Peterson (2008) suggested that it would be possible to change
the classification of Aspergillus by splitting the genus based on
teleomorphic states associated with particular monophyletic groups.
However, he advocated keeping Aspergillus as a monophyletic
genus, since this would reflect the actual relationships of species
displaying an aspergillum whereas dividing the form genus into
several genera based on teleomorphs would de-emphasise the
relationships for most biologists not intimately familiar with the
genus. Teleomorph genera associated with Aspergillus anamorphs
include Chaetosartorya, Dichotomomyces, Emericella, Eurotium,
Fennellia, Neocarpenteles, Neopetromyces, Neosartorya and
Petromyces.
The type species of the genera Polypaecilum and Phialosimplex
and the ex-type strain of Basipetospora halophilica form a strongly
supported clade (100 % bs, 1.00 pp) within Aspergillus s. str.
This clade is related to Aspergillus sections Cremei, Aspergillus
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
and Restricti (64 % bs, 1.00 pp). Recently, Phialosimplex was
introduced for species with simple phialides borne laterally on
vegetative hyphae. These phialides form chains of conidia and are
mostly monophialidic, but a second opening can also be formed
(polyphialides). Sagenomella chlamydosporus and S. sclerotialis
were transferred to this genus and Phialosimplex canicus was
described as a new species (Sigler et al. 2010). The transfer of
S. sclerotialis to Phialosimplex created a paraphyletic genus with
Polypaecilum embedded in it. The type species of Polypaecilum,
P. insolitum, produces its conidia on polyphialides and this feature
is shared with members of Phialosimplex (Smith 1961a). The
formation of chlamydospores and the occurrence in patient material
are also shared features of both genera. This indicates that these
genera could be congeneric and more research is needed to clarify
their taxonomic status. Basipetospora halophilica also belongs to
this diverse clade. The production of short solitary conidiophores
or conidiogeneous cells by this species is a shared character
with members of Phialosimplex, Polypaecilum and many other
genera; however, formation of polyphialides by this species was
not described (Pitt & Hocking 1985). Furthermore, Polypaecilum
morphs related to Thermoascus and Dichotomyces are not part of
this clade and this genus is polyphyletic.
Clade 3: Hamigera
Hamigera, Warcupiella and the related anamorphs Merimbla
and Raperia are positioned in clade 3. The statistical support of
this clade is low (< 70 % bs, < 0.90 pp) and the studied species
might not be related. We decided to place the species Hamigera
avellanea, Hamigera striata, Penicillium megasporum, Talaromyces
leycettanus and Warcupiella spinosa in our taxon sampling based on
data presented in previous studies, in which it was demonstrated that
these species are related (Ogawa & Sugiyama 2000, Tamura et al.
2000, Peterson 2008, Peterson et al. 2010). Penicillium giganteum,
Merimbla ingelheimensis, Hamigera paravellanea, H. insecticola,
H. inflata, H. terricola, H. pallida, H. fusca were not included in our
study, but are also members of this clade (Ogawa & Sugiyama
2000, Peterson et al. 2010). Hamigera striata and Talaromyces
leycettanus are on a strongly supported branch (94 % bs, 1.00 pp).
Ogawa & Sugiyama (2000) showed in their 18S rDNA analysis that
both species are related (83 % bs), confirming our data. Peterson
et al. (2010) did not accept H. striata in Hamigera because of lack
of statistical support and followed Benjamin’s (1955) placement of
this species in Talaromyces. Our results indicate that Talaromyces
is phylogenetically distant and we therefore maintain H. striata in
Hamigera. Talaromyces leycettanus also warrants further attention.
Stolk & Samson (1972) noted that the anamorph of T. leycettanus,
Paecilomyces leycettanus, seems to occupy an intermediate form
between Penicillium and Paecilomyces. The complex conidiophore
of T. leycettanus resembles Merimbla (= anamorph of Hamigera)
(Peterson et al. 2010), supporting its placement in this diverse
clade. Warcupiella is monotypic, represented by Warcupiella
spinulosa (Subramanian 1972) and this species was originally
described as Aspergillus spinulosus (Raper & Fennell 1965). Later,
Raperia was introduced by Subramanian & Rajendran (1979) to
accommodate the anamorph of W. spinulosa (von Arx 1986). Our
results and others (Tamura et al. 2000, Peterson 2008) show that W.
spinulosa does not belong to Penicillium or Aspergillus, and is more
closely related to Hamigera avellanea. The relationship between
Warcupiella/Raperia and Hamigera was also noted by von Arx
(1986), and he transferred W. spinulosa to Hamigera. Penicillium
megasporum, another member of this clade, has little affinity with
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Penicillium s. str. as noted by Pitt (1980), who created Penicillium
series Megaspora for this species and P. asperosporum. Peterson
et al. (2010) described the penicillus structure of P. megasporum
as similar as that of Merimbla, but that phylogenetic analysis did
not support inclusion of P. megasporum in the Hamigera clade.
Our analysis lacks high bootstrap support to confidentially place P.
megasporum, W. spinulosa and T. leycettanus in Hamigera. More
research is needed to elucidate the classification of this diverse
clade.
Clade 4: Penicilliopsis
Clade 4 comprises Aspergillus zonatus and Penicilliopsis
clavariiformis and these two species form a strongly supported
clade. Penicilliopsis is typified by P. clavariiformis and
characterised by seed-borne, stipitate stromata. The anamorph
genera Pseudocordyceps, Sarophorum and Stilbodendron are
phenotypically related (Samson & Seifert 1985, Hsieh & Ju 2002).
The former two genera have conidiogenous structures similar to
those of Penicillium and the latter has Aspergillus-like conidiogenous
structures. The sclerotia of Stilbothamnium morphologically
resemble ascomata of Penicilliopsis. However, phylogenetically,
the type species of Stilbothamnium, Aspergillus togoensis, belongs
to Aspergillus subgenus Circumdati section Flavi and is unrelated
to Penicilliopsis (Fig. 1). More research is needed to clarify the
relationship between Penicillium, Penicilliopsis and the associated
anamorph genera Pseudocordyceps and Sarophorum.
Clade 5: Monascus, Xeromyces and Leiothecium
The teleomorph genera Monascus, Xeromyces and Leiothecium
belong in clade 5, as do the anamorph genera Fraseriella
and Basipetospora (Pettersson et al. 2011, our data). Benny
& Kimbrough (1980) placed Monascus, Xeromyces and
Leiothecium in Monascaceae and this family is transferred here to
Aspergillaceae (see part 1, phylogeny of Aspergillaceae). These
genera have similar phenotypic characters including the formation
of stalked ascomata and the production of aleurioconidia from
undifferentiated conidiogenous cells. These features clearly set
these genera apart from Penicillium s. str. and Aspergillus. Our
results confirm those of Pettersson et al. (2011) and we follow their
opinion in retaining Xeromyces for xerophilic Monascus-like species
and Monascus for the species that grow at higher water activities.
In addition, Pettersson et al. (2011) suggested that Chrysosporium
inops should be transferred to a new genus. However, Fig. 1 shows
that this species is closely related to X. bisporus and the xerophilic
nature of boths species indicates a close relationship (Pitt &
Hocking 2009, Pettersson et al. 2011). Leiothecium is basal to
Monascus and the connection between these two genera was also
noted by Samson & Mouchacca (1975). Aspergillus clavatoflavus
is basal to this clade, but the relationship lacks statistical support.
The micromorphology is A. clavatoflavus differs from the members
of clade 5 and therefore this species is placed outside this clade,
awaiting more conclusive data.
Clade 6: Phialomyces
The type species of Phialomyces, Phial. macrosporus (Misra
& Talbot 1968), is positioned in clade 6 and is closely related to
Penicillium arenicola (100 % bs, 1.00 pp). Merimbla humicoloides
(= Penicillium humicoloides sensu Peterson et al. 2010) also
belongs to this clade (R.A. Samson, unpubl. data). All three species
are phylogenetically distinct form Penicillium s. str. Pitt (1980)
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placed P. arenicola in a separate section and series and noted
that this species may not be a true Penicillium. Phenotypically,
Phial. macrosporus, M. humicoloides and P. arenicola form conidia
in shades of gold-brown, a feature uncommon for Penicillium
species. These species can produce terverticillate conidiophores,
a character also present in subgenus Penicillium (clade 1B). Our
results indicate that P. arenicola and M. humicoloides should be
transferred to another genus.
Clade 7: Sclerocleista
Sclerocleista ornata and S. thaxteri are basal to Phial. macrosporus
and P. arenicola (Fig. 1). Sclerocleista ornata was originally
described as Aspergillus ornatus (Raper et al. 1953), and later
transferred to Sclerocleista (Subramanian 1972). Sclerocleista
thaxteri was originally described in Sclerocleista and later von
Arx (1974) transferred this species to Hemicarpenteles. The two
species are closely related, and phylogenetically distant from H.
paradoxus, the type species of Hemicarpenteles (Fig. 1, Penicillium
s. str.). Peterson (2008) placed Sclerocleista basal to the Aspergilli,
suggesting a monophyletic Aspergillus clade; however, our data do
not support this conclusion. Sclerocleista differs from Penicillium s.
str. in having an Aspergillus-type anamorph and purple coloured
cleistothecia filled with lenticular ascospores (Raper & Fennell
1965).
Phylogeny of Thermoascaceae
Figure 1 shows that two clades (clade 8 and 9) are present in
Thermoascaceae (= lineage 2). The phylogeny of these two
clades and the comparison of the species belonging to these two
clades with Penicillium s. str. is discussed below.
Clade 8: Thermoascus
Thermoascus aurantiacus, T. crustaceus and T. thermophilus are
together with Byssochlamys verrucosa in a separate clade. The
taxonomy of Thermoascus is treated in various studies. Apinis
(1967) split Thermoascus in two: Thermoascus was retained
for its type species T. aurantiacus, and T. thermophilus and T.
crustaceus were transferred to Dactylomyces. Later, Mouchacca
(1997) divided Dactylomyces further in two, creating Coonemeria
for T. crustaceus. Although these species have different anamorphs
(Paecilomyces/Polypaecilum), our phylogenetic study (Fig. 1)
shows that these three species are closely related and should
be retained in Thermoascus. Samson et al. (2009) noted that
Byssochlamys verrucosa is misidentified in Byssochlamys but
related to Thermoascus, and this observation is confirmed here.
Thermoascus has a similar type of sclerotioid cleistothecium as
members of Penicillium s. str. (Stolk & Samson 1983). These
two genera differ mainly in ascomatal development. Ascomata
of Thermoascus are initiated by an ascogonial coil (Stolk 1965,
Subramanian & Rajendran 1980), whereas in Penicillium s. str.
the formation begins with sclerotium-like bodies inside which the
ascogonia develop. Furthermore, the anamorphs of Thermoascus
are not of the Penicillium type, but can be similar to Paecilomyces.
Clade 9: Paecilomyces
The types of Paecilomyces (P. variotii) and Byssochlamys (B.
nivea) occur together on a branch with 100 % bootstrap support.
Using a polyphasic approach, Samson et al. (2009) showed that the
genera Byssochlamys and Paecilomyces s. str. are closely related
and form a monophyletic group. Paecilomyces was introduced
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by Bainier (1907) and has priority over Byssochlamys (Westling
1909). Phylogenetic analysis of the 18S rDNA demonstrated that
Paecilomyces sensu Samson (1974) is polyphyletic across two
subclasses, Sordariomycetidae and Eurotiomycetidae. The type
species of this genus, Paecilomyces variotii, and its thermophilic
relatives belong in the Eurotiales (Luangsa-ard et al. 2004). Figure
1 shows that Paecilomyces s. str. is also phylogenetically distinct
from Penicillium. Morphological characters also support this
conclusion. The conidia of Paecilomyces s. str. are olive-brown and
formed in phialides that have a broad base and end in a long and
slender neck, while the conidia of Penicillium species are green
and formed in flask or cylindrical shaped phialides. In addition, the
conidiophores of Paecilomyces s. str. are more irregularly branched
than those of Penicillium. The teleomorphs are also different: those
of Paecilomyces (formerly known as Byssochlamys) are almost
naked while Penicillium s. str. produces cleistothecia with a distinct
wall.
Phylogeny of Trichocomaceae
Five clades (clades 10–15) can be recognised in the more narrowly
delimited Trichocomaceae. The species treated in these clades
are phylogenetically distinct from Penicillium s. str., but some are
phenotypically similar.
Clade 10: Talaromyces
The majority of Penicillium species assigned to the subgenus
Biverticillium belong in clade 10 (incl. type of subgenus Biverticillium,
P. minioluteum) together with the type species of the genera
Talaromyces and Sagenoma. These species are phylogenetically
distant from Penicillium s. str. and therefore these species are
transferred to the genus Talaromyces (Samson et al. 2011, this
study). Phenotypically, Talaromyces differs from Penicillium s. str.
by the formation of symmetrically branched conidiophores with
lanceolate phialides, and the production of soft ascomata without
a well-defined, persistant wall. Members of the Talaromyces
clade grow slower on the agar medium G25N than Penicillium
s. str. members (Pitt 1980). Also differences in ubiquinones and
extrolites patterns are observed between Penicillium sensu stricto
and Talaromyces. The Q9 ubiquinone system was present in most
Penicillium sensu stricto species, while nearly all Talaromyces have
Q10(H2) (Paterson 1998). In addition, extrolites such as mitorubrins,
certain bisanthraquinones (rugulosin, skyrin), duclauxin and
glauconic acide were detected in Talaromyces, but never found
in Penicillium sensu stricto (Frisvad et al. 1998). The taxonomic
and phylogenetic structure of Talaromyces is considered further by
Samson et al. (2011).
The neotype strain of Aphanoascus cinnabarinus sensu
Udagawa and Takada also belongs to this clade. Much taxonomic
confusion followed after the proposal of Aphanoascus by
Zukal (1890). Most authors follow Apinis (1968) and maintain
Aphanoascus that is typified by A. fulvescens. In addition, the
neotypification of A. cinnabarinus by Udagawa & Takada (1973)
was incorrect, because their neotype strain had a Paecilomyces
anamorph, while Zukal’s original description and illustrations
showed structures of a Chrysosporium anamorph (Stolk & Samson
1983). Based on morphological characters, Stolk & Samson (1983)
suggested that Chromocleista cinnabarina (as A. cinnabarinus
sensu Udagawa & Takada) belongs to Eurotiales, and that this
species occupies an intermediate position between the genera
Thermoascus and Talaromyces. The result of our multigene
phylogeny shows that C. cinnabarina belongs to Talaromyces s. str.
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
This data is in concordance with the 18S rDNA sequence data of
Ogawa & Sugiyama (2000), which shows that C. cinnabarina forms
a monophyletic group with T. macrosporus and T. bacillisporus.
No specimens of Erythrogymnotheca were studied, but an ITS
sequence of the type species of this genus (E. paucispora) is
deposited GenBank (AB176603) and a BLAST search on GenBank
and internal CBS databases shows that this sequence belongs to
Talaromyces s. str.
Excluded genera: Geosmithia, Phialotubus and Yunnania
The genera Geosmithia, Phialotubus and Yunnania have
sometimes been hypothesised to be related to Penicillium (Gams
1978, Pitt 1980, Kong 1998). Our data shows that these genera do
not belong to the Eurotiales and details are provided below.
Geosmithia
Clade 12 is centered around the type species of Sagenomella,
S. diversispora, and this genus is phylogenetically unrelated to
Penicillium s. str. Sagenomella was described by Gams (1978)
for Acremonium-like fungi and is characterised by connected
conidial chains and sympodially proliferating, often centrally
swollen phialides. These characters are not present in Penicillium
s. str. Molecular data showed that Sagenomella sensu Gams is
polyphyletic (Endo et al. 1998, Thanh et al. 1998, our results). Sigler
et al. (2010) transferred S. chlamydospora and S. sclerotialis to the
new genus Phialosimplex and Sagenomella bohemica belongs in
Talaromyces (Samson et al. 2011). The close relationship of this
genus with Talaromyces indicates that Sagenomella is a reduced
form of Talaromyces.
The genus Geosmithia is typified by G. lavendula (Pitt 1978) and
is a polyphyletic morphogenus introduced to classify Penicillium
species, which are characterised by: a) cylindroidal phialides and
conidia, b) rugulose to rugose conidiophores walls, metulae and
phialides and c) conidial colour other than green (with the exception
of G. namyslowskii). Anamorphs of Geosmithia have affinities with
hypocrealean (Hypocreales: Bionectriaceae) and eurotialean
(Eurotiales: Trichocomaceae) fungi, and the type species of
Geosmithia, G. lavendula, is related to Acremonium alternatum,
the type species of Acremonium (Ogawa et al. 1997, Rossman et
al. 2001, Summerbell et al. 2011). Currently, there are 16 described
species (Pitt 1980, Yaguchi et al. 1993, 1994, Pitt et al. 2000, Kolařík
et al. 2004, 2005, 2010), and eight of these species (G. fassatiae, G.
flava, G. langdonii, G. lavendula, G. morbida, G. obscura, G. pallida,
and G. putterillii) belong to the Hypocreales. Geosmithia argillacea
(teleomorph Talaromyces eburneus sensu Yaguchi et al. 2005), G.
eburnea (teleomorph Talaromyces eburneus sensu Yaguchi et al.
1994), G. emersonii (teleomorph Talaromyces emersonii) and G.
cylindrospora are closely related to each other and were recently
transferred to Rasamsonia (Houbraken et al. 2011d, see clade 13
above). Geosmithia swiftii (teleomorph Talaromyces bacillisporus)
and G. viridis belong to Talaromyces s. str. and G. namyslowskii
and G. malachiteum (described as the anamorph of Chromocleista
malachitea) belong to Penicillium s. str. (Fig. 1). Zaleski (1927)
originally described Geosmithia namyslowskii as Penicillium
namyslowskii and the new combination of Penicillium malachiteum
is made elsewhere in this article.
Clade 13: Rasamsonia
Phialotubus
Clade 11: Thermomyces
Talaromyces thermophilus belongs to the same clade as the type
of Thermomyces, T. lanuginosus. Talaromyces thermophilus and
Therm. lanuginosus share similar characters, including their ability
to grow at high temperatures and the formation of thick-walled
chlamydospores or chlamydospore-like conidia. These characters
are not shared by members of Penicillium s. str. Talaromyces
luteus is basal to this clade. This species is not thermophilic and
phenotypically different from Thermomyces and Tal. thermophilus,
and it is therefore excluded from clade 11.
Clade 12: Sagenomella
The thermophiles Talaromyces emersonii and T. byssochlamydoides
were transferred to Rasamsonia (Houbraken et al. 2011d), leaving
T. thermophilus as sole thermophile in Talaromyces. However,
our phylogenetic analysis shows that this species belongs to
Thermomyces and not to Talaromyces. The genus Rasamsonia
was erected for thermotolerant or thermophilic species, which
have cylindrical phialides usually gradually tapering towards the
apices, conidiophores with distinctly rough walled stipes, olivebrown conidia and ascomata, if present, with a scanty covering.
This clade contains the species R. argillacea, R. brevistipitata, R.
byssochlamydoides, R. cylindrospora, R. eburnea and R. emersonii
(Houbraken et al. 2011d).
Clade 14: Trichocoma
The monotypic genus Trichocoma is typified by Trichocoma
paradoxa and is characterised by asci born in hyphal masses or
tufts that can be up to 10–20 mm long (Kominami et al. 1952,
Malloch 1985b). The anamorph of this species resembles an
anamorph of Talaromyces. However, Trichocoma produces conidia
in shades of brown. Rasamsonia is phylogenetically related to
Trichocoma, and can be differentiated by the presence of scanty
ascomatal coverings and its ability to grow at temperatures above
40 °C.
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Phialotubus (Roy & Leelavathy 1966) is monotypic with
Phialotubus microsporus as the type. This species is characterised
by the formation of cylindrical phialides with long hyaline threadlike projections, which get prolonged into the hyaline tube-like
projection when conidia are formed (Fig. 2). The conidia are fusiform
in shape and produced in chains (Roy & Leelavathy 1966, Gams
1978, Arx 1981). These characters suggest a close connection
with the Eurotiales, for example with Paecilomyces, Phialomyces,
Sagenomella and Torulomyces. However, a BLAST search on
GenBank with an ITS sequence of strain CBS 861.70isoT (GenBank
no. JN831360) did not retrieve any high similarity matches with
members of the Eurotiales. The overall similarity matches were low
and this species probably belongs to the class Sordariomycetes.
Yunnania
Kong (1998) proposed the genus Yunnania and typified it with
Y. penicillata. The truncated conidia and the black or brownish
black colonies resemble those of Scopulariopsis. In addition, the
conidia are produced by annelides (Fig. 3). Examination of the
type strain of Y. penicillata (CBS 130296T) showed that this species
is morphologically related to Scedosporium. A BLAST search on
GenBank with an ITS sequence of this species (GenBank no.
JN831361) did not retrieve a high similarity match, but showed that
this species belongs to the order Microascales.
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Fig. 2. Phialotubus microsporus CBS 861.70isoT. A. Colonies grown for 7 d at 25 °C, from left to right: CYA, MEA, OA. B–D. Conidiophores and conidia. Scale bar = 10 µm.
Taxonomic implications
Aspergillaceae Link, Abh. dt. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1824: 165. 1826.
= Eurotiaceae Clements and Shear, Gen. Fung. 50. 1931.
= Monascaceae J. Schröter, Nat. Pflanzenfamilien 1: 148. 1894.
= Hemicarpenteleaceae Locquin, Tribune Méd. (Paris) 1. 1972. nom. inval.
(Art. 36).
= Penicilliaceae Vuillemin, Pl. Jungh. 10: 172. 1910. (as Penicilliacées nom.
inval. Art. 32.1b).
= Penicilliopsidaceae Locquin, Tribune Méd. (Paris) 1. 1972. nom. inval. (Art.
36).
= Phialomycetaeae Locquin, Mycologie générale et structurale: 212. 1984.
nom. inval. (Art. 36).
= Warcupiellaceae Locquin, Mycologie générale et structurale: 167. 1984.
nom. inval. (Art. 36).
= Xeromycetaceae Locquin, Tribune Méd. (Paris) 1. 1972. nom. inval. (Art.
36).
Type: Aspergillus Fr: Fr.
Thermoascaceae Apinis, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc 50: 581. 1967.
Type: Thermoascus Miehe
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Trichocomaceae E. Fischer, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1: 310. 1897. (as
Trichocomataceae)
= Talaromycetaceae Locquin, Mycologie générale et structurale: 176. 1984.
nom. inval. (Art. 36).
= Dendrosphaeraceae Ciferri ex Benny & Kimbrough, Mycotaxon 12: 22.
1980.
Type: Trichocoma Junghuhn
Part Two: Delimitation of Penicillium
Authority
The generic name Penicillium is attributed to Link (1809). Link
included three species within Penicillium, P. glaucum, P. candidum
and P. expansum. He illustrated P. candidum, which clearly shows
structures of a Penicillium species. Later, Penicillium expansum was
selected by Thom (1910) and later (co-)authors as the lectotype of
Penicillium. The generic name Penicillium was attributed by Fries
(1832: 406) to Link (1809). Hawksworth et al. (1976) proposed to
conserve the generic name Penicillium as Penicillium Link ex Grey
over Penicillium Fries 1832 (proposal no. 420), and lectotypified
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
Fig. 3. Yunnania penicillata CBS 130296T. A. Colonies grown for 7 d at 25 °C, from left to right: MEA, OA, CYA. B–D. Conidiophores and conidia.
the genus with Penicillium expansum Link ex Grey. This proposal
was countered by Jørgensen & Gunnerbeck (1977) because Fries
listed “Mucor crustaceus L.” as a typical species of Penicillium and
not as the type species of this genus. The proposal of Hawksworth
et al. (1976) was therefore rejected (Petersen 1980). The general
starting point for fungal names is Linnaeus 1753, but there are a
few exceptions and these are mentioned in the ICBN under art.
13e. One exception is that names used by E.M. Fries’ “Systema
mycologicum” 1821–1832 have a protected status. These names
are sanctioned and have priority over older synonyms and
homonyms. The authority used here is therefore Penicillium Link
: Fries.
Hemicarpenteles. Details regarding the position of these genera
in Penicillium are presented below. Another important difference
between our and Raper & Thom’s (1949) concept is the exclusion
of Talaromyces and related Penicillium species. In our concept, only
teleomorphs producing pseudoparenchymatous and sclerotioid
ascomata are included (“Eupenicillium-type”), and Talaromyces
species, with soft ascomata without a well-defined, persistent
wall, are excluded (Samson et al. 2011). Also the Penicillium
species, which have lanceolate phialides and metulae with equal
lengths as the phialides, are excluded. These species are also
phylogenetically distinct (Fig. 1). Our emended generic diagnosis is
derived from Raper & Thom (1949) and is presented here:
Generic diagnosis
Penicillium Link : Fries, Systema Mycologicum 3: 406. 1832.
Vegetative mycelium abundant, entirely submerged or more or less
effused, irregularly branching, septate, hyaline or brightly coloured
and forming a dense and compact mycelia colony with well-defined
margins. Conidiophores borne from undifferentiated subsurface,
superficial or aerial hyphae, rarely subapically proliferation under
terminal penicillus. Stipes relatively narrow and thin walled, 2–5 µm,
The concept of Penicillium has been refined and restated often in
mycological history. The concept of Raper & Thom (1949) is followed
here; however, there are some emendations. In our concept,
Penicillium includes species with pigmented stipes (Thysanophora
species, P. stolkiae and related species), as well as species formerly
ascribed to the genera Eladia, Torulomyces, Chromocleista and
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and in some species apically swollen, hyaline, in some species brown.
Conidial apparatus usually a well defined structure (brush or broom),
named the Penicillus; penicilli comprised of phialides born directly
on the stipe, or with one, two or rarely more verticils of metulae and
rami as supporting cells. Conidiogenous cells phialides, borne in
succession, i.e. not synchronouse, rarely exceeding 15 µm in length,
ampulliform, rarely cylindrical. Conidia in unbranched chains, borne
basipetally, single celled, commonly between 2–5 µm in diameter,
rarely exceeding 6 µm, en masse coloured in shades of green, rarely
white, olive or brown. Chlamydospores absent. Sclerotia occasionally
produced, composed of thick-walled cells, usually hard. Cleistothecia, if
produced, usually hard, globose to subglobse, pseudoparenchymatous
or sclerochymatous, ripening from the center outward and often tardily;
white, pale, yellow, orange or brown coloured, occasionally black or
red. Asci ellipsoidal to globose, usually 8-spored, 5–15 µm. Ascospores
lenticular, usually with equatorial ridges, 2–5 µm.
Synonyms of Penicillium
The re-definition of the genus Penicillium has several taxonomic
implications. Based on the phylogenetic data presented in Fig.
1 in combination with a review of literature, we place the genera
Chromocleista, Carpenteles, Citromyces, Eladia, Eupenicillium,
Hemicarpenteles, Thysanophora and Torulomyces in synonymy
with Penicillium. More genera are congeneric with Penicillium and
a more extended list can be found in Seifert et al. (2011: 333).
Each genus is discussed here and new combinations are proposed
below for the species accommodated in these genera.
Penicillium Link : Fries, Systema Mycologicum 3: 406. 1832.
= Penicillium Link, Obs. Mycol 1: 16. 1809 (nom. inval., Art. 13e).
= Coremium Link ex Gray, Nat. Arr. Br. Pl. 1: 563. 1821.
= Eupenicillium Ludwig, Lehrb. Nied. Kryptog.: 263. 1892.
= Citromyces Wehmer, Bleitr. Kennt. Pilze 1: 1. 1893.
= Carpenteles Langeron, C.r. Séanc. Soc. Boil. Paris 87: 344. 1922.
= Torulomyces Delitsch, Systematik der Schimmelpilze: 91. 1943.
= Thysanophora Kendrick, Can. J. Bot. 39: 820. 1961.
= Eladia Smith, Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 44: 47. 1961.
= Hemicarpenteles Sarbhoy & Elphick, Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 51: 156. 1968.
= Penicillium Link ex Gray sensu Pitt, The Genus Penicillium: 154. 1980 (nom.
inval., art 13e).
= Chromocleista Yaguchi & Udagawa, Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan 34: 101.
1993.
Subgenus Aspergilloides Dierckx, Annls. Soc. Scient. Brux. 25:
85. 1901.
= Subgenus Monoverticillium Biourge, Cellule 33: 265. 1923.
= Subgenus Furcatum Pitt, The Genus Penicillium: 233. 1980.
Subgenus Penicillium
= Subgenus Eupenicillium Dierckx, Annls Soc. Scient. Brux. 25: 85. 1901.
Chromocleista
The genus Chromocleista, defined by the type species C. malachitea,
belongs to Penicillium and is related to P. herquei (see Figs 1, 7).
This genus was created by Yaguchi et al. (1993) for species that
form bright coloured sclerotioid cleistothecia with a Geosmithia
anamorph (Fig. 4). The close relationship with Eupenicillium was
noted in the original description, but the presence of the Geosmithia
anamorph was, according to the authors, sufficient to create a new
genus. Using 18S rDNA sequence data, Ogawa & Sugiyama (2000)
showed that C. malachitea groups with Eupenicillium javanicum, E.
crustaceum, P. chrysogenum and Geo. namyslowskii. Furthermore,
they indicated that the Geosmithia-anamorph of Chromocleista
malachitea resembles P. herquei and the former species could
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be placed in synonymy. Comparison of the β-tubulin sequences
and RPB2 sequences of the (neo)type cultures of P. herquei CBS
336.48NT and C. malachitea CBS 647.95T showed homologies of
92.8 % and 94.7 % respectively. Furthermore, a BLAST search with
the ITS, RPB2 and β-tubulin sequence data of C. malachitea CBS
647.95T on GenBank and local databases did not retrieve any high
similarity matches with other described species and therefore this
species is combined with Penicillium below.
Citromyces
Citromyces was introduced by Wehmer (1893) for monoverticillate
Penicillium species. Many authors have agreed that this genus
is a synonym of Penicillium (Westling 1911, Biourge 1923,
Thom 1930, Raper & Thom 1949, Pitt 1980). Citromyces largely
encompasses subgenus Aspergilloides as defined by Pitt (1980).
In our classification system, Citromyces corresponds with section
Aspergilloides.
Eladia
Thom (1930) and Raper & Thom (1949) regarded Penicillium
sacculum Dale as a Scopulariopsis, and Smith (1961b) introduced
the genus Eladia to accommodate this species and typified it with E.
saccula. Smith (1961b) did not indicate why this species should not
be considered a Penicillium. Pitt (1980) accepted the positioning
of E. saccula in a separate genus and he noted that this genus is
closely related to Penicillium, but differing in three features (Fig.
4): a) the phialides are born irregularly on stipes, b) phialides have
a short collula and distinct thickening of the wall; c) the conidial
chains are very short. Stolk & Samson (1985) did not accept this
genus and transferred E. saccula to Penicillium and this position
was retained in the list of accepted species in Trichocomaceae
(Pitt et al. 2000). Our molecular data support the positioning of
Smith’s neotype of Eladia succula (CBS 231.61NT) in Penicillium
(Figs 1 and 7). This species is most closely related to P. canescens
and P. atrovenetum (Fig. 7, clades 24, 25). The relationship of P.
sacculum with these species (and also with e.g. P. janczewskii) was
also suggested by Stolk & Samson (1985), who emphasised that
all these species have swollen phialides with an abruptly narrowed
neck and often short conidial chains.
Six species were described in Eladia: E. saccula, E. inflata, E.
minima, E. striatispora, E. pachyphialis and E. tibetensis. The current
name for Eladia saccula is Penicillium sacculum Dale (1926). Extype strains of E. inflata (CBS 127833) and E. minima (CBS 127834)
were examined and comparison of the RPB2 region (Fig. 8) showed
that E. inflata and P. fuscum (= E. pinetorum, CBS 295.62T) are
closely related. Eladia minima is closely related to P. heteromorphum
(CBS 226.89T) and P. philippinense (CBS 623.72T). Eladia minima is
closely related to P. heteromorphum, P. restrictum, Eup. katangense
and Eup. philippinense (data not shown). More research is needed to
determine species boundaries in this group of phylogenetical related
species. No living ex-type material could be obtained for Eladia
striatispora. Drawings of E. striatispora show a clear resemblance
with P. striatisporum, and therefore E. striatispora is regarded as a
synonym of P. striatisporum (Stolk 1969, Matsushima 1971, Kobayasi
1971). No type material could be obtained from E. pachyphialis and
E. tibetensis and their taxonomic position remains uncertain.
Eupenicillium and Carpenteles
The genus Eupenicillium was introduced by Ludwig (1892)
for an ascomycete species that Brefeld (1874) described and
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
Fig. 4. A–F. Penicillium malachiteum CBS 647.95HT. A. Colonies grown for 7 d at 25 °C, from left to right: MEA, CYA, YES, DG18. B–D. Conidiophores. E. Immature
cleistothecia. F. Conidia. G–K. Penicillium sacculum CBS 123567. G. Colonies grown for 7 d at 25 °C, from left to right: MEA, CYA, YES, DG18. H–J. Conidiophores. K.
Conidia. Scale bar = 10 µm.
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illustrated as P. crustaceum. Unaware of Ludwig’s publication,
Langeron (1922) introduced the genus Carpenteles for ascusproducing Penicillium species. Because we include sexual and
asexual species in our definition of Penicillium, Eupenicillium and
Carpenteles are considered synonyms of Penicillium. In most
cases a Penicillium anamorph name is already available for these
Eupenicillium species; however, in the case of E. bovifimosum
and E. saturniforme, only the teleomorph was described and no
Penicillium names linked to these species exist (Tuthill & Frisvad
2002, Wang & Zhuang 2009). The new combinations Penicillium
bovifimosum and Penicillium saturniforme are proposed below for
these two species.
Hemicarpenteles
The genus Hemicarpenteles was created by Sarbhoy & Elphick
(1968) and H. paradoxus was designated as type (IMI 117502T
= CBS 793.68T). This species is characterised by the presence of
an Aspergillus anamorph and sclerotioid ascomata (Fig. 5). This
unique combination led to the proposition of a new genus. If only
ascoma development and characteristics were considered, then H.
paradoxus is most similar to Eupenicillium, because both genera
form sclerotioid cleistothecia that ripen from the centre outwards
(Sarbhoy & Elphick 1968, Pitt 1980, Stolk & Samson 1983).
Figure 1 shows the phylogenetic positioning of H. paradoxus in
the genus Penicillium. The placement of this species in Penicillium
is remarkable, since this species has an Aspergillus anamorph.
The positioning of H. paradoxus in Penicillium is also supported
by analysis of the ITS and D1/D2 regions of the 28S rDNA and
partial calmodulin and β-tubulin data (Peterson 2000a, 2008)
and the name Penicillium paradoxum will therefore be proposed
(R.A. Samson, unpubl. data). The placement of an Aspergillustype anamorph in the genus Penicillium might be confusing, when
using solely phenotypic characters for identification. Three other
species are described in Hemicarpenteles: H. acanthosporus, H.
ornatus and H. thaxteri. The former species was transferred to
Neocarpenteles acanthosporus (Udagawa & Uchiyama 2002)
and phylogenetic studies showed that this species is related to
Aspergillus section Clavati (Tamura et al. 2000, Varga et al. 2007,
Peterson 2000b, 2008). Hemicarpenteles ornatus and H. thaxteri
are currently classified in Sclerocleista (Fig. 1, clade 7) (Pitt et al.
2000).
Thysanophora
Thysanophora was proposed by Kendrick (1961), based on
Haplographium penicillioides. Haplographium penicillioides was
transferred to Thysanophora because this species produces
conidia from phialides in a basipetal succession and in dry chains,
while Haplographium species produce ameroconidia in slime.
Roumeguère (1890) noted in his description of H. penicillioides that
this species also forms Penicillium-like conidiophores (“l’appareil
fructifère ressemble à celui d’un Penicillium”). Preuss’ description
of three new Penicillium species (P. finitimum, P. flexuosum and
P. fuscipes) in 1851 from pine needles might be the first report of
members Thysanophora. The habitat and descriptions certainly
indicate this placement, but unfortunately, no type specimens were
maintained (Kendrick 1961).
Thysanophora species produce dark coloured colonies, have
dark and stout conidiophores and the majority of species have
secondary growth of the stipe by means of the proliferation of an
apical penicillius (Fig. 6). Based on the combined RPB1, RPB2, Tsr1
and Cct8 data, it is clear that members of the genus Thysanophora
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belong to Penicillium. Members of this genus form a separate clade
within this genus (Figs 1, 7), confirming earlier results using rDNA
sequences (Iwamoto et al. 2002, Peterson & Sigler 2002). Although
stipe pigmentation of Thysanophora species is brown, this feature
is thus not a useful phylogenetic character for separating this genus
from Penicillium (Iwamoto et al. 2002). Melanised conidiophores
appear in two separated lineages in Penicillium, namely in
Thysanophora, and in a second lineage centered on P. stolkiae
(Peterson & Sigler 2002). Another characteristic of Thysanophora
is the secondary growth of the stipes. This character is not present
in any other Penicillium species and could be argued as a feature
sufficient to keep Thysanophora as a separate genus. However,
that would create a paraphyletic clade in Penicillium or the need
for at least eight genera to restore monophyly. To avoid both
scenarios it is chosen here to transfer this genus to Penicillium.
Thysanophora comprises eight accepted species, namely T.
longispora, T. canadensis, T. taxi, T. striatispora, T. asymmetrica,
T. verrucosa, T. glaucoalbida and T. taiwanensis (Minter 2007).
Thysanophora penicillioides is regarded as a synonym of T.
glauco-albida, because following the ICBN, the latter epithet has
priority (Morelet 1968, Minter 2007). No type material was present
in the CBS culture collection of T. striatispora, T. asymmetrica, T.
verrucosa, T. glaucoalbida and T. taiwanensis. Only the species
descriptions were studied and the species delimitation of MercadoSierra (1998) is largely followed. With exception of T. taxi, which
was originally described as Penicillium taxi (Schneider 1956),
all accepted species of Thysanophora are transferred here to
Penicillium and new combinations are proposed below.
Torulomyces
The genus Torulomyces was erected for two species (T. lagena and
T. viscosus) which form dry connected chains in a basipetal manner
(Delitsch 1943). Stolk & Samson (1983) transferred Torulomyces
lagena, the type species, to Penicillium. This transfer was based on
morphological similarities, such as the phialide shape and cultural
appearances (Fig. 6). Later, Pitt & Samson (1993) did not accept
this transfer to Penicillium, and Torulomyces was re-instated. Our
phylogenetic data support Stolk & Samson’s (1983) proposal to
transfer Torulomyces to Penicillium and other species described in
Torulomyces need to be combined with Penicillium.
Currently, eight species are described in Torulomyces: T.
brunneus, T. indicus, T. laevis, T. lagena, T. macrosporus, T.
ovatus, T. parviverrucosus and T. viscosus. Isolate CBS 185.65
was designated as the neotype of P. lagena, and Eupenicillium
limoneum was considered to be the teleomorph of this species
(Stolk & Samson 1983). Unfortunately, the ex-type culture of
E. limoneum (CBS 650.82T) maintained in the CBS collection is
dead. Stolk & Samson (1983) are followed here and E. limoneum
is kept in synonymy with P. lagena. Delitsch’s species Torulomyces
viscosus remains doubtful since no type material is available and
the diagnosis lacks critical details (Stolk & Samson 1983, Ando
et al. 1998). No ex-type material of Torulomyces macrosporus
could be obtained; based on its protologue (Matsushima 1987),
T. macrosporum may belong to Monocillium (Ando et al. 1998).
Torulomyces laevis, T. ovatus and T. parviverrucosus were described
by Ando et al. (1998) and in the same publication Monocillium
humicola var. brunneum was combined with T. brunneus. The type
strain of T. brunneus CBS 382.64T is closely related to Torulomyces
lagena CBS 185.65NT; these isolates have identical ITS sequences,
but differ in their partial β-tubulin, calmodulin and RPB2 sequences
(ITS 100 %; calmodulin 98.3 % and β-tubulin 98.4 % and RPB2
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
Fig. 5. A–G. Penicillium kewense CBS 344.61T. A. Colonies grown for 7 d at 25 °C, from left to right: MEA, CYA, YES, DG18. B–C. Cleistothecia. D-E. Conidiophores. F.
Conidia. G. Ascospores. H–N. Aspergillus paradoxus (= P. paradoxum, R.A. Samson unpubl. results) CBS 130295. H. Colonies grown for 7 d at 25 °C, from left to right: MEA
(14 d), CYA, YES, DG18. I. Detail of conidiophores. J. Cleistothecia. K–L. Conidiophores. M. Ascospores. N. Conidia. Scale bar = 10 µm.
98.3 %; unpubl. data). Ando et al. (1998) is followed here and this
species is kept as separate. No type material of T. laevis, T. ovatus
and T. parviverrucosus was available for analysis, but a detailed
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study of the species descriptions suggests they warrant separate
species status. New combinations in Penicillium are proposed
below. Various isolates with similar morphology to P. lagena are
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Fig. 6. A–H. Penicillium glaucoalbidum CBS 292.60. A. Colonies grown for 7 d at 25 °C, from left to right: MEA, CYA, YES, DG18. B–D. Conidiophores. E. Conidia. F–J.
Penicillium lagena CBS 337.97. F. Colonies grown for 7 d at 25 °C, from left to right: MEA, CYA, YES, DG18. G–I. Conidiophores. J. Conidia. Scale bar = 10 µm.
maintained in the CBS collections (CBS 185.65, CBS 382.64,
CBS 287.66, CBS 337.97, CBS 120415, CBS 110532, DTO 82A8,
DTO 92D1), and preliminary sequencing results show a sequence
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variation among these strains, suggesting the presence of multiple
species (unpubl. data). A thorough taxonomic study should be
preformed to elucidate the species diversity in this clade.
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
The genus Monocillium needs further attention. This genus
was established for a single species, M. indicum (Saksena 1955).
Based on conidium morphogenesis, Hashmi et al. (1972) placed
Monocillium in synonymy with Torulomyces, and later Kendrick &
Carmichael (1973) made the combination Torulomyces indicus.
However, a BLAST search with the ITS sequence of the type strain
of M. indicum (UAMH 1499, GenBank GQ169328) showed that the
closest relatives are among Hypocreaceae (Sigler et al. 2010). This
is in agreement with Gams (1971), who showed that Monocillium
species are anamorphs related to Niesslia species.
accepted Penicillium and Eupenicillium species mentioned in the list
of “accepted species and their synonyms in Trichocomaceae” (Pitt
et al. 2000) were used as a starting point for dividing the species
among the various sections, updated species described after 2000.
In various cases, the same Penicillium and Eupenicillium species
share the same ex-type specimen. However, if the type material of
the Penicillium morph differs from the Eupenicillium morph, then both
ex-type strains were included in the study and additional comments
are given in the text.
Part Three: Sectional delimitation within Penicillium
s. str.
= Eupenicillium sect. Pinetorum (Pitt) Stolk & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 23: 88.
1983.
Classification
Dierckx (1901) proposed the first infrageneric classification
of Penicillium and introduced the subgenera Aspergilloides,
Biverticillium and Eupenicillium (Biourge 1923). Biourge (1923)
expanded this subdivision and accepted two subgenera, two
sections, four series and six subsections. The sections Bulliardium
(Asymetrica) was introduced by Biourge (1923) and in this section
Penicillium species with branched conidiophores were included.
No type species was designated and species with terverticillate
conidiophores belong to Biourge´s definition of his section
Bulliardium (Asymetrica). We decided to synonymise this section
with section Penicillium. The section Biverticillium belongs to
Talaromyces s. str. and is not treated here (Fig. 1). In the classical
work of Thom (1930: 155–159), Penicillium is divided in four
subgenera (although not named as such), and 12 sections and 17
subsections. Raper & Thom (1949) introduced various new sections,
subsections and series and Ramírez (1982) largely followed Raper
and Thom’s classification. Neither provided Latin descriptions for
their newly introduced sections (and series), and these names
are therefore regarded as nomen invalidum are not considered
further here. Pitt (1980) divided Penicillium into four subgenera, 10
sections and 21 series. Five years later, Stolk & Samson (1985)
proposed another taxonomic scheme for Penicillium anamorphs. In
the latter taxonomic scheme, both sexual and asexual species were
treated. More recently, Samson & Frisvad (2004) revised subgenus
Penicillium and five sections and 17 series were recognised. An
overview of sections and their type species of the studies of Thom
(1930), Pitt (1980), Stolk & Samson (1985) and Frisvad & Samson
(2004) is shown in Table 5.
The classification of Eupenicillium does not have such a long
history: Pitt (1980) was the first, and introduced eight series. In the
monograph of Stolk & Samson (1983), four sections were introduced
for the grouping of the Eupenicillium species and Pitt’s infrageneric
concept of classifying species in series was abandoned.
Accepted species and their position in the sections of
Penicillium
The phylogenetic relationship among Penicillium s. str. was studied
using combined sequence data of four loci. Based on these results
(Fig. 7), Penicillium is subdivided into two subgenera and 25 sections.
An overview of these sections is presented in Table 5, together with the
type species of each section. In our study, a new sectional subdivision
is proposed and older names at different ranks (e.g. subgeneric,
subsection and series names) and invalid names (Raper & Thom
1949, Ramírez 1982) are not considered. Assignment of the species
to the various sections was mainly based on the overviews presented
in Figs 8 and 10–13 and other published molecular-based data. The
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Clade 1: section Aspergilloides
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides.
Type: Penicillium aurantiobrunneum Dierckx
Most members of this section grow quickly on agar media,
form velvety colonies and are predominantly monoverticillate.
This section corresponds to group 2 of Peterson (2000a). Two
teleomorph species are positioned in this section: P. fuscum and
P. saturniforme. Stolk (1968) found ascospores in an old culture
of the type strain of P. pinetorum and described the ascosporic
state as Eupenicillium pinetorum. Later, the anamorph of E.
pinetorum was linked to P. fuscum (Stolk & Samson 1983);
the latter name is older than P. pinetorum and therefore used
here. The taxonomic position of P. lapidosum warrants further
attention. Peterson (2000a) suggested that this species is
conspecific with P. thomii. However, our results show that the type
strain of this species (CBS 343.48T) is phylogenetically related
to P. namyslowskii (Fig. 7, clade 10) and therefore unrelated to
section Aspergilloides. Based on the data presented in Fig. 8
and literature (Peterson 2000a, Peterson & Horn 2009, Wang
& Zhuang 2009, Barreto et al. 2011), we place the following
species in section Aspergilloides:
Penicillium ardesiacum Novobranova, Novosti Sist. Nizs. Rast. 11:
228. 1974.
Penicillium asperosporum Smith, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 48: 275.
1965.
Penicillium crocicola Yamamoto, Scient. Rep. Hyogo Univ. Agric.,
Agric. Biol. Ser. 2, 2: 28. 1956.
Penicillium fuscum (Sopp) Biourge, Cellule 33: 103. 1923 (Stolk &
Samson 1983).
Penicillium georgiense Peterson & Horn, Mycologia 101: 79. 2009.
Penicillium glabrum (Wehmer) Westling, Ark. Bot. 11: 131. 1911
(syn. P. terlikowskii; Barreto et al. 2011).
Penicillium kananaskense Seifert, Frisvad & McLean, Can. J. Bot.
72: 20. 1994 (unpubl. data, K.A. Seifert).
Penicillium lapatayae Ramírez, Mycopathol. 91: 96. 1985 (Frisvad
et al. 1990c).
Penicillium lividum Westling, Ark. Bot. 11: 134. 1911.
Penicillium montanense Christensen & Backus, Mycologia 54: 574.
1963.
Penicillium odoratum Christensen & Backus, Mycologia 53: 459.
1962 (this study, Fig. 8).
Penicillium palmense Ramírez & Martínez, Mycopathol. 66: 80.
1978.
Penicillium patens Pitt & Hocking, Mycotaxon 22: 197. 1985.
Penicillium quercetorum Baghdadi, Nov. Sist. Niz. Rast. 5: 110.
1968.
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P. fractum
P. gracilentum
P. janthinellum
P. ochrosalmoneum
A. paradoxus
P. expansum
P. cyaneum
P. lanosum
P. roqueforti
P. sclerotiorum
P. stolkiae
S. glauco-albidum
P. lagena
P. turbatum
Fasciculata*
Fracta
Gracilenta
Lanata-divaricata
Ochrosalmonea
Paradoxa
Penicillium*
Ramigena
Ramosa
Roquefortorum*
Sclerotiora
Stolkia
Thysanophora
Torulomyces
Turbata
Cylindrosporum
Divaricatum
Inordinate
Penicillium
Undefined; similar to Lanata-divaricata
P. janthinellum-type
P. camemberti
P. minioluteum
Miscellaneous species and genera
Undefined section
Citromyces species
Undefined section
Funiculosa
Lanata-divaricata
Lanata-typica
Luteo-virida
Miscellanea
(Monoverticillata)-stricta
(Monoverticillata)-Ramigena
Velutina
P. minioluteum
P. expansum
P. arenicola
P. oxalicum
P. restrictum
P. janthinellum
Torulomyces
Ramosum
Penicillium
Inordinate
Geosmithia
Eladia
Divaricatum
P. lagena
P. lanosum
P. expansum
P. arenicola
P. lavendulum
P. sacculum
P. janthinellum
P. duclauxii
P. minioluteum
Exilicaulis
Eladia
Digitata*
Citrina
Cinnamopurpurea
Chrysogena*
Charlesii
Canescentia
Brevicompacta*
P. viridicatum
P. restrictum
P. sacculum
P. digitatum
P. citrinum
P. cinnamopurpureum
P. chrysogenum
P. charlesii
P. canescens
P. olsonii
* Frisvad & Samson (2004) divided subgenus Penicillium in six sections. This sectional classification is supported by extrolite, phenotypic and physiological data and their subdivision is followed here. The results of our analysis based on partial RPB2
data (Fig. 13) do not confirm these sections; however, partial β-tubulin data largely confirmed their polyphasic classification (Samson et al. 2004).
Simplicium
Furcatum
Exilicaulis
P. italicum
Coremigenum
Biverticillium
P. aurantiobrunneum
Type species
Fasiculate Penicillia e.g. P. hirsutum
P. olsonii
P. duclauxii
Aspergilloides
Fasciculata
Section
Coronatum
Coremigenum
P. glabrum
Type species
P. duclauxii
Aspergilloides
Section
P. brevicompactum
P. aurantiobrunneum
Type species
Coremigena
Aspergilloides
Brevi-compacta
Section
P. luteum
Current study
Type species
Stolk & Samson (1985)
Ascogena
Pitt (1980)
Section
Thom (1930)
Table 5. Overview of sectional classification in different studies of Penicillium
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CBS 347.59 P. thomii
CBS 125543NT P. glabrum
Clade 1: sect. Aspergilloides (Fig. 8)
CBS 295.62NT P. fuscum
98/*
CBS 122276T P. saturniforme
CBS 117503T P. thiersii
*/*
*/*
CBS 336.48NT P. herquei
-/*
CBS 647.95HT P. malachiteum
Clade 2: sect. Sclerotiora (Fig. 8)
98/*
CBS 229.60NT P. hirayamae
63/1.00
CBS 209.28
209 28LT P.
P adametzii
*/*
CBS 229.81NT P. fellutanum
-/0.98
*/*
CBS 304.48T P. charlesii
Clade 3: sect. Charlesii (Fig. 8)
CBS 119387T P. coffeae
CBS 277.58T P. griseolum
*/*
CBS 206.57T P. taxi
Clade 4: sect. Thysanophora
57/CBS 334.68T P. hennebertii
*/*
CBS 489.66 P. ochrosalmoneum
Clade 5: sect. Ochrosalmonea (Fig. 12)
CBS 247.56T P. isariiforme
*/*
CBS 112493T P. ellipsoideosporum
89/0 99
89/0.99
CBS 341.68
341 68T P.
P idahoense
Cl d 6:
Clade
6 sect.
t Cinnamopurpurea
Ci
(Fi 10)
(Fig.
*/*
CBS 228.89T P. shennangjianum
59/CBS 490.66 P. cinnamopurpureum
*/*
CBS 251.56T P. ramusculum
Clade 7: sect. Ramigena (Fig. 10)
CBS 190.68T P. ornatum
92/*
CBS 271.89HT P. cryptum
*/*
CBS 185.65NT P. lagena
Clade 8: sect. Torulomyces
74/CBS 277.70 P. lassenii
*/*
CBS 351.67T P. inusitatum
Clade 9: sect. Fracta
CBS 124.68T P. fractum
NT
/
*/*
CBS 367.48
367 48 P.
P restrictum
91/0.93
CBS 247.67T P. katangense
NT
-/CBS 258.29 P. citreonigrum
*/*
CBS 317.67HT P. alutaceum
CBS 353 48NT P. namyslowskii
76/*
Clade 10: sect. Exilicaulis (Fig. 10)
*/*
CBS 343.48T P. lapidosum
CBS 231.38 P. corylophilum
93/*
-/68/0.94
CBS 352.67HT P. catenatum
*/*
CBS 318.67HT P. erubescens
*/*
CBS 203.84HT P. nepalense
CBS 456.70
456 70T P.
P dimorphosporum
97/*
CBS 233.81 P. caperatum (NT of E. brefeldianum)
65/*
CBS 341.48T P. javanicum
Lineage 1
62/0.97
CBS 219.30NT P. oxalicum
*/*
Aspergilloides
CBS 340.48NT P. janthinellum
Clade 11: sect. Lanata-divaricata (Fig. 11)
84/*
*/*
CBS 246.67HT P. abidjanum
NT
69/CBS 372.48 P. simplicissimum
CBS 315.67HT P. stolkiae
Clade 12: sect. Stolkia (Fig. 11)
97/*
*/*
CBS 11687T P. macrosclerotiorum
Clade 13: sect. Gracilenta (Fig. 10)
CBS 599.73T P. gracilentum
CBS 232.38
232 38 P.
P citrinum (Type of P.
P implicatum)
*/*
CBS 139.45NT P. citrinum
*/*
Clade 14: sect. Citrina (Fig. 12)
CBS 290.48T P. shearii
CBS 323.71NT P. euglaucum
97/*
CBS 344.61T P. kewense
Clade 15-19, details see Fig. 13:
76/0.93
CBS 306.48NT P. chrysogenum
*/*
-/100
CBS 185.27NT P. griseofulvum
sect. Fasiculata
CBS 462.72HT P. osmophilum
sect. Digitata
NT
57/CBS 339.48 P. italicum
96/*
NT P. expansum
sect. Penicillium
CBS
325.48
*/*
CBS 112082epiT P.
P digitatum
sect
sect.
Roquefortorum
NT
*/* CBS 390.48 P. viridicatum
*/*
*/*
sect. Chrysogena
CBS 299.48AUT P. camemberti
CBS 603.74NT P. verrucosum
*/*
Clade 20, 21: sect. Turbata, Paradoxa
CBS 527.65T Aspergillus paradoxus
*/*
CBS 430.69T P. tularense
Clade 22, 23: sect. Brevicompacta,
*/*
CBS 232.60NT P. olsonii
*/*
Ramosa (Fig. 13)
NT
CBS 106.11 P. lanosum
Lineage 2
*/*
CBS 300.48NT P. canescens
Clade 24: sect. Canescentia (Fig. 13)
CBS 241.56NT P. atrovenetum
s/g Penicillium */*
*/* CBS 231.61NT P. sacculum
Clade
25: sect.
sect Eladia (Fig.
(Fig 13)
CBS 316.67 P. senticosum
CBS 513.88 Aspergillus niger
ATCC 18227T Talaromyces (= Penicillium) marneffei
0.1
*/*
*/*
*/*
s/g
Fig. 7. Best-scoring Maximum Likelihood tree using RAxML based on combined data set of partial Cct8, Tsr1, RPB1 and RPB2 sequences showing the relationship among
members of Penicillium s. str. Penicillium s. str. is divided in two lineages (s/g Aspergilloides and Penicillium) and 25 sections. The BI posterior probabilities (pp) values and
bootstrap (bs) percentages of the maximum likelihood (ML) analysis are presented at the nodes (bs/pp). Values less than 70 % supported in the ML or less than 0.95 in the
Bayesian analysis are indicated with a hyphen, whereas asterisks indicate good support (100 % bs or 1.00 pp). The branches with more than 95 % bootstrap support and 1.00
posterior probability values are thickened. The bar indicates the number of substitutions per site. The tree is rooted with Penicillium (= Talaromyces) marneffei ATCC 18227T.
Penicillium saturniforme (Wang & Zhuang) Houbraken & Samson,
Stud. Mycol. 70: 48. 2011 (this study).
Penicillium spinulosum Thom, Bull. Bur. Anim. Ind. U.S. Dep. Agric.
118: 76. 1910.
Penicillium subericola Barreto, Frisvad & Samson, Fungal Diversity
49: 32. 2011.
www.studiesinmycology.org
Penicillium thiersii Peterson, Bayer & Wicklow, Mycologia 96: 1283.
2004.
Penicillium thomii Maire, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afrique N. 8: 189.
1917.
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Houbraken & Samson
*/* CBS 125096T P. subericola
-/- CBS 374.48NT P. spinulosum
CBS 336.79NT P. palmense
CBS 347.59 P. thomii
*/98
*/CBS 260.87HT P. patens
CBS 745.70IsoT P. crocicola
0.96/72
*/* CBS 229.28 P. glabrum
*/96
CBS 105.11 P. glabrum
*/99
CBS 125453NT P. glabrum
NRRL 35684 P. glabrum (EF198601)
*/*
CBS 324.83 P. asperosporum
*/96
/96
CBS 309.63 P. fuscum
0.99/94
CBS 295.62NT P. fuscum
-/- CBS 235.60 P. fuscum
-/*/99
CBS 127833HT “Eladia” inflata
0.98/90
CBS 310.63HT P. montanense
0.99/77
CBS 497.73NT P. ardesiacum
NRRL 35682 P. species (EF198600)
*/99
294.62
62T P.
P odoratum
*/99 CBS 294
CBS 347.48NT P. lividum
*/89
-/CBS 417.69IsoT P. quercetorum
CBS 122276T P. saturniforme
CBS 117503T P. thiersii
*/* CBS 305.48 “P. chermisinum”
-/*/*
CBS 231.81 “P. chermisinum”
so P.
-/87
CBS 115
115.63
63IsoT
P indicum
CBS 119387T P. coffeae
*/*
CBS 249.32NT P. phoeniceum
*/*
*/95 CBS 330.59 P. charlesii
-/95 CBS 326.59 P. charlesii
*/*
CBS 304.48T P. charlesii
-/IBT 15460NT P. fellutanum
*/*
/ CBS 330.90T P. nodositatum
CBS 221.66NT P. bilaiae
-/86
IBT 27051T P. angulare
*/*
*/82
CBS 313.59T P. adametzioides
*/99
CBS 192.87NT P. jugoslavicum
CBS 116113HT P. brocae
-/80
CBS 209.28NT P. adametzii
*/88
CBS 287.36NT P. sclerotiorum
*/*
*/96
*/97
NRRL 2060 P. multicolor (EU427262)
NRRL 143NT P. hirayamae (EU021625)
*/99 CBS 336.48NT P. herquei
*/97
*/*
CBS 347.51T P. luteocoeruleum
CBS 647.95HT P. malachiteum
NRRL 2162HT Aspergillus paradoxus (EF669670)
*/*
*/*
CBS 325.48NT P. expansum
CBS 231.61NT P. sacculum
NRRL326NT Aspergillus niger
CBS 310.38NT Talaromyces flavus
*/72
Clade 1:
sect Aspergilloides
sect.
Clade 3:
sect. Charlesii
Clade 2:
sect. Sclerotiora
0.1
Fig. 8. Best-scoring Maximum Likelihood tree using RAxML based on partial RPB2 sequences and giving an overview of the members accommodated in sections Aspergilloides,
Sclerotiora and Charlesii. The BI posterior probabilities (pp) values and bootstrap (bs) percentages of the maximum likelihood (ML) analysis are presented at the nodes (pp/
bs). Values less than 70 % supported in the ML or less than 0.95 in the Bayesian analysis are indicated with a hyphen, whereas asterisks indicate good support (100 % bs or
1.00 pp). The branches with more than 95 % bootstrap support and 1.00 posterior probability values are thickened. The bar indicates the number of substitutions per site. The
tree is rooted with Talaromyces flavus CBS 310.38NT.
Clade 2: section Sclerotiora Houbraken & Samson, sect. nov.
MycoBank MB563124.
Sectio in Penicillio subgen. Aspergilloide. Mycelio saepe colorato, plus minusve
flavido et/vel aurantiaco. Sclerotis/cleistotheciis claris. colore.
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In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
Type: Penicillium sclerotiorum van Beyma
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
Members of section Sclerotiora generally have monoverticillate
conidiophores; however, exceptions are P. malachiteum, P.
nodositatum and P. herquei, which form symmetrically biverticillate
conidiophores. The mycelium of members of sect. Sclerotiora
is pigmented in shades of yellow and/or orange, reverse colony
colours in shades of yellow, orange or red, and sclerotia and
cleistothecia are, if present, bright coloured. Species belonging to
this section occur regularly in and are abundant upon substrata
exposed to soil. This section corresponds with group 3 of Peterson
(2000a). Our list of species belonging to this section was composed
based on the data presented in Fig. 8 and studies by Peterson
(2000a), Peterson et al. (2003, 2004), Peterson & Horn (2009),
Nonaka et al. (2011) and Rivera & Seifert (2011). Isolate NRRL
2060 is included in Fig. 8 and Peterson & Horn (2009) treated
this strain as the type of P. multicolor. However, Raper & Thom’s
(1949) isolates of P. multicolor differ in significant features from the
original description of Grigorieva-Manoilova & Poradielova (1915)
(Pitt 1980), and Rivera & Seifert (2011) treated this species as a
synonym of P. fellutanum. Penicillium nodositatum shares identical
partial RPB2 sequences with P. bilaiae and might be conspecific
with the latter species. More research is needed because the
former species produces biverticillate conidiophores and the latter
strictly monoverticillate structures (Pitt 1980, Valla et al. 1989).
Type: Penicillium charlesii Smith
Penicillium adametzii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci.
Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 507. 1927.
Penicillium adametzioides Abe ex Smith, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 46:
335. 1963.
Penicillium angulare Peterson, Bayer & Wicklow, Mycologia 96:
1289. 2004.
Penicillium bilaiae Chalabuda, Bot. Mater. Otd. Sporov. Rast. 6:
165. 1950.
Penicillium brocae Peterson, Pérez, Vega & Infante, Mycologia 95:
143. 2003.
Penicillium cainii Rivera & Seifert, Stud. Mycol. 70: 147. 2011.
Penicillium guanacastense Rivera, Urb & Seifert, Mycotaxon, in
press. 2011.
Penicillium herquei Bainier & Sartory, Bull. Soc. Mycol. France 28:
121. 1912.
Penicillium hirayamae Udagawa, J. Agric. Sci. Tokyo Nogyo
Daigaku 5: 6. 1959.
Penicillium jacksonii Rivera & Seifert, Stud. Mycol. 70: 151. 2011.
Penicillium johnkrugii Rivera & Seifert, Stud. Mycol. 70: 151. 2011.
Penicillium jugoslavicum Ramírez & Muntañola-Cvetkovic,
Mycopathol. 88: 65. 1984.
Penicillium malachiteum (Yaguchi & Udagawa) Houbraken &
Samson, Stud. Mycol. 70: 47. 2011 (this study).
Penicillium mallochii Rivera, Urb & Seifert Mycotaxon, in press.
2011.
Penicillium nodositatum Valla, Plant and Soil 114: 146. 1989.
Penicillium sclerotiorum van Beyma, Zentralbl. Bakteriol., 2. Abt.,
96: 418. 1937.
Penicillium viticola Nonaka & Masuma, Mycoscience 52: 339. 2011.
Clade 4: section Thysanophora Houbraken & Samson, sect.
nov. MycoBank MB563126.
Clade 3: section Charlesia Houbraken & Samson, sect. nov.
MycoBank MB563125.
Sectio in Penicillio subgen. Aspergilloide. Solum in CYA, conidiophoris ad apicem
inflatis.
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
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The phylogeny of this section was studied by Peterson et al. (2005).
In the same study, an overview was presented of phenotypic
characters to differentiate species within section Charlesii. It was
stated that the overall phenotypic similarity of these species is
striking; however, no shared characters were given. With exception
of P. indicum, all members of section Charlesii grow restricted on
CYA and have conidiophores with an apical swelling. Species of
this section can be strictly monoverticillate, but P. charlesii and P.
fellutanum can also be irregularly biverticillate. Included species
are based on the data presented in Fig. 8 and Peterson (2000a)
and Peterson et al. (2005).
Penicillium charlesii Smith, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 18: 90. 1933.
Penicillium coffeae Peterson, Vega, Posada & Nagai, Mycologia
97: 662. 2005.
Penicillium fellutanum Biourge, Cellule 33: 262. 1923.
Penicillium georgiense Peterson & Horn, Mycologia 101: 79. 2009.
Penicillium indicum Sandhu & Sandhu, Can. J. Bot. 41: 1273. 1963
(syn. P. gerundense, Peterson & Horn 2009).
Penicillium phoeniceum van Beyma, Zentralbl. Bakteriol., 2. Abt.,
88: 136. 1933.
Sectio in Penicillio subgen. Aspergilloide. Coloniis pullis, conidiophoris pigmentatis,
compactis et incremento secundario stipitis per proliferationem penicillii apicali.
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
Type: Sclerotium glauco-albidum Desmazières
The genus Thysanophora is placed in synonymy with Penicillium
(see above). The section is characterised by the formation dark
coloured colonies, pigmented and stout conidiophores and the
majority of species have secondary growth of the stipe by means
of the proliferation of an apical penicillius. Nine specific epithets
have been combined with Thysanophora, and eight are accepted
species. Mercado-Sierra et al. (1998) is largely followed here and
the following species belong in section Thysanophora:
Penicillium asymmetricum (Subramanian & Sudha) Houbraken &
Samson, Stud. Mycol. 70: 47. 2011 (this study).
Penicillium coniferophilum Houbraken & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 70:
47. 2011 (this study).
Penicillium glaucoalbidum (Desmazières) Houbraken & Samson,
Stud. Mycol.70: 47. 2011 (this study).
Penicillium hennebertii Houbraken & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 70: 47.
2011 (this study).
Penicillium longisporum (Kendrick) Houbraken & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 70: 47. 2011 (this study).
Penicillium melanostipe Houbraken & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 70:
47. 2011 (this study).
Penicillium taiwanense (Matsushima) Houbraken & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 70: 48. 2011 (this study).
Penicillium taxi Schneider, Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie und
Parasitenkunde, Abteilung 2, 110: 43. 1956.
Clade 5: section Ochrosalmonea Houbraken & Samson,
sect. nov. MycoBank MB563127.
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Fig. 9. Penicillium isariiforme CBS 247.56. A. Colonies grown for 14 d at 25 °C, from left to right: MEA, YES, CYA. B–D. Conidiophores. E. Conidia. Scale bar = 10 µm.
Sectio in Penicillio subgen. Aspergilloide. Mycelio conspicue pigmentoso, flavido;
phialidibus ampulliformibus vel acerosis; conidiis apiculatis.
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
Type: Penicillium ochrosalmoneum Udagawa
Penicillium ochrosalmoneum and P. isariiforme are accommodated
in section Ochrosalmonea (Fig. 5, clade 5). Both species seem
macroscopically dissimilar. Penicillium isariiforme grows quickly
on agar media MEA and CYA (Pitt 1980) and forms characteristic
feather-like synnemata (Samson et al. 1976, Fig. 9). In contrast, P.
ochrosalmoneum isolates grow slowly on agar media and forms a
velutinous colony surface (Pitt 1980). However, both species form
conspicuous yellow coloured mycelium, ampulliform to acerose
shaped phialides and apiculate conidia. The classification of P.
isariiforme in Penicillium was subject of various studies. This
species was classified in subgenus Biverticillium (= Talaromyces
s. str.) (Pitt 1980, Frisvad & Filtenborg 1983), but also in subgenus
Penicillium (= Penicillium s. str.) (Ramírez 1982, Samson et al.
1976). Figure 7 shows that P. isariiforme phylogenetically belongs
to subgenus Aspergilloides in Penicillium s. str.
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The holotype of Eup. ochrosalmoneum is CBS 489.66 and CBS
231.60 is the ex-type of P. ochrosalmoneum. The strains share
identical partial RPB2 sequences and therefore E. ochrosalmoneum
is regarded as conspecific with P. ochrosalmoneum (Fig. 12). Based
on the data presented in Fig. 12, the following species belong in
section Ochrosalmonea.
Penicillium isariiforme Stolk & Meyer, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 40:
187. 1957.
Penicillium ochrosalmoneum Udagawa, J. Agric. Sci. Tokyo Nogyo
Daigaku 5: 10. 1959.
Clade 6: section Cinnamopurpurea Houbraken & Samson,
sect. nov. MycoBank MB563128.
Sectio in Penicillio subgen. Aspergilloide. Sect. Ornatis similis, sed conidiophoris
semper simplicibus vel biverticillate divaricates; stipitibus cum conidiophoris
distincte vesiculosis.
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
Type: Penicillium cinnamopurpureum Udagawa
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
Members of section Cinnamopurpurea grow slowly on MEA
and CYA and can be strictly monoverticillate, but species with
biverticillate conidiophores are also present in this section. The
majority of the species have distinct vesicular conidiophores.
This section is phenotypically related to section Ornata; however,
statistical support for this relationship is lacking in our phylogenetic
analysis (Fig. 7).
Penicillium cinnamopurpureum was originally described by
Abe (1956) without a Latin diagnosis, and validated by Udagawa
(1959). Stolk & Samson (1983) considered P. dierckxii the
anamorph of Eupenicillium cinnamopurpureum and Pitt (1980)
linked P. phoeniceum to E. cinnamopurpureum. Our data show
that P. phoeniceum (sect. Charlesii, Fig. 8) and P. dierckxii
(sect. Ramigena, Fig. 10) are phylogenetically distinct from P.
cinnamopurpureum. Furthermore, partial RPB2 data show that
the type strains of P. cinnamopurpureum (CBS 847.68) and E.
cinnamopurpureum (CBS 490.66) are similar (Fig. 10).
Penicillium chermesinum is also placed in this section. This
species was neotypified with NRRL 2048 (= CBS 231.81), because
the type culture, NRRL 735, no longer adequately represented
Biourge’s protologue (Pitt 1980). Molecular analysis shows that
these two species are phylogenetically unrelated. The ITS-partial
28S rDNA sequences of NRRL 735T (= GenBank no. AF033413)
is related to P. cinnamopurpureum (Peterson 2000a) while the
neotype of this species, NRRL 2048NT, (AY742693) is related to
P. indicum in section Charlesii. Based on the data presented in
Fig. 10 and Peterson & Horn (2009), the following species are
accommodated in Cinnamopurpurea.
Penicillium chermesinum Biourge, Cellule 33: 284. 1923.
Penicillium cinnamopurpureum Udagawa, J. Agric. Food Sci.,
Tokyo 5: 1. 1959.
Penicillium ellipsoideosporum Wang & Kong, Mycosystema 19:
463. 2000.
Penicillium idahoense Paden, Mycopath. Mycol. Appl. 43: 261.
1971 (Peterson & Horn 2009, this study).
Penicillium incoloratum Huang & Qi, Acta Mycol. Sin. 13: 264. 1994.
Penicillium malacaense Ramírez & Martínez, Mycopathologia
72: 186. 1980 (syn. P. ovetense, this study) (Peterson & Horn
2009).
Penicillium nodulum Kong & Qi, Mycosystema 1: 108. 1988.
Penicillium parvulum Peterson & Horn, Mycologia 101: 75. 2009.
Penicillium shennangjianum Kong & Qi, Mycosystema 1: 110. 1988.
Clade 7: section Ramigena Thom, The Penicillia: 225. 1930.
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
Type: Penicillium cyaneum (Bainier & Sartory) Biourge
This section is based on Thom’s section Ramigena. Thom
(1930) introduced this section for species where monoverticillate
conidiophores are evident, but divaricate branching at various levels
without a definiteness of organisation or arrangement is consistently
observed. Most species illustrated by Banier & Sartory (1913) as
species of Citromyces are accommodated in this section (fide
Thom 1930). Members of the section Ramigena share the following
characters: a slow growth rate on agar media, a monoverticillate
branching system with non-vesiculate stipes. Conidia are relatively
large (3–4 µm), smooth and ellipsoidal or pyriform (Pitt 1980).
Penicillium ornatum is the sole member known in this section with
a teleomorph (Udagawa 1968, Pitt 1980). The ascospores of this
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species are ornamented with two and sometimes four longitudinal
flanges. The ex-type culture of P. implicatum in the CBS collection
(CBS 232.38) is a Penicillium citrinum, and therefore this species
is not accepted as distinct (Frisvad et al. 1990b, Houbraken et
al. 2010b). Pitt (1980) neotypified P. implicatum with CBS 184.81
and Fig. 10 shows that this strain is closely related to the type of
Penicillium hispanicum CBS 691.77. This neotypification is not
accepted here and P. implicatum sensu Pitt is considered as a
synonym of P. hispanicum. Pitt et al. (2000) accepted P. dierckxii,
P. cyaneum and P. sublateritium as single species in their overview
of accepted species in Penicillium. This concept is followed here;
however, partial RPB2 data (Fig. 10) shows that these three
species are very closely related and might represent one species.
Penicillium capsulatum Raper & Fennell, Mycologia 40: 528. 1948.
Penicillium cyaneum (Bainier & Sartory) Biourge, Cellule 33: 102.
1923.
Penicillium dierckxii Biourge, Cellule 33: 313. 1923.
Penicillium hispanicum Ramírez, Martínez & Ferrer, Mycopathol.
66: 77. 1978 (syn. Penicillium implicatum sensu Pitt).
Penicillium ornatum Udagawa, Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan 9: 49.
1968.
Penicillium ramusculum Batista & Maia, Anais Soc. Biol. Pernamb.
13: 27. 1955 (syn. P. brevissimum Rai & Wadhwani) (this study,
Peterson & Horn 2009).
Penicillium sublateritium Biourge, Cellule 33: 315. 1923.
Clade 8: section Torulomyces (Delitsch) Stolk & Samson,
Adv. Pen. Asp. Syst.: 169. 1985.
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
Type: Penicillium lagena (Delitsch) Stolk & Samson
The genus Torulomyces is synonymised with Penicillium and
consequently the majority of the species described in Torulomyces
are transferred to Penicillium (this study). Figure 7 shows that P.
lagena is related to P. cryptum and P. lassenii. These species have
a slow growth rate on the agar media CYA and MEA and form shortstiped monoverticillate or terminal biverticillate conidiophores.
Phialides are predominantly singly formed in P. lagena, short, 4–7
µm long, with a narrowed base and a swollen middle that tapers
abruptly into a narrow neck (Fig. 6).
Penicillium cryptum Gochenaur, Mycotaxon 26: 349. 1986.
Penicillium lagena (Delitsch) Stolk & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 23:
100. 1983.
Penicillium laeve (K. Ando & Manoch) Houbraken & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 70: 47. 2011 (this study).
Penicillium lassenii Paden, Mycopathol. Mycol. Appl. 43: 266. 1971.
Penicillium ovatum (K. Ando & Nawawi) Houbraken & Samson,
Stud. Mycol. 70: 48. 2011 (this study).
Penicillium parviverrucosum (K. Ando & Pitt) Houbraken & Samson,
Stud. Mycol. 70: 48. 2011 (this study).
Penicillium porphyreum Houbraken & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 70:
48. 2011 (this study).
Clade 9: section Fracta Houbraken & Samson, sect. nov.
MycoBank MB563129.
Sectio in Penicillio subgen. Aspergilloide. Coloniis in agaro tarde crescentibus;
ascosporis spinulosis; phialidibus ampullifomibus vel lanceolatis; conidiis
ellipsoideis.
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CBS 261.87HT P. sabulosum
CBS 256.87T P. corynephorum
0.99/74
CBS 276.83NT P. smithii
*/*
CBS 280.58 P. melinii
CBS 218.30NT P. melinii
0.97/CBS 380.75IsoT P. atrosanguineum
CBS 224.28NT P. raciborskii
*/99 -/81 CBS 622.72IsoT P. luzoniacum
-/- CBS 313.67HT P. terrenum
*/99
/99
CBS 255.87 P.chalybeum
*/*
CBS 325.89T P. burgense
*/*
CBS 343.48T P. lapidosum
-/CBS 353.48NT P. namyslowskii
*/* CBS 330.79 P. corylophilum
*/* CBS 231.38 P. corylophilum
CBS 145.83HT P. rubefaciens
CBS 689.77T P. fagi
*/99
CBS 230.81NT P. decumbens
CBS 317.67HT P. alutaceum
*/83
CBS 226.89NT P. heteromorphum
-/81
/81
CBS 222.66IsoT P. cinereoatrum
*/CBS 247.67T P. katangense
*/91
*/*
CBS 367.48NT P. restrictum
CBS 623.72AUT P. philippinense
CBS 314.67HT P. meridianum
0.99/93
*/* NRRL 1187 P. citreonigrum (EF198501)
*/*
NRRL 2046 P. citreonigrum (EF198502)
NRRL 3127 P. toxicarium (EF198486)
*/98 NRRL 6172 P. toxicarium (EF198499)
*/* CBS 609.73HT P. rubidurum
*/90
CBS 102479HT P. pimiteouiense
-/*/*
CBS 570.73IsoT P. papuaneum
*/75
CBS 359.48NT P. parvum
0.96/70
CBS 389.48NT P. vinaceum
CBS 318.67HT P. erubescens
*/99
CBS 705.68HT P. striatisporum
-/CBS 352.67HT P. catenatum
*/95
0.95/CBS 203.84HT P. nepalense
CBS 456.70T P. dimorphosporum
*/*
CBS 341.68T P. idahoense
-/CBS 112493T P. ellipsoideosporum
*/* CBS 163.81 P. malacaense
0.99/88
CBS 160.81T P. malacaense
-/- CBS 227.89NT P. nodulum
*/* CBS 228.89T P. shennangjianum
*/*
-/CBS 101753HT P. incoloratum
*/* CBS 847.68SynT P. cinnamopurpureum
CBS 490.66 P. cinnamopurpureum
CBS 315.48NT P. cyaneum
*/* CBS 267.29NT P. sublateritium
*/*
CBS 185.81NT P. dierckxii
*/* CBS 184.81 “P. implicatum” sensu Pitt
-/73
-/CBS 691.77T P. hispanicum
CBS
190.68T P. ornatum
*/92
CBS 251.56T P. ramusculum
*/* CBS 763.68T P. brevissimum
*/*
-/NRRL 2279 P. ramusculum (EU427260)
CBS 301.48NT P. capsulatum
CBS 125543NT P. glabrum
*/99
CBS 599.73T P. gracilentum
*/100
CBS 116871T P. macrosclerotiorum
CBS 202.84HT P. angustiporcatum
CBS 340.48NT P. janthinellum
CBS 315.67HT P. stolkiae
*/*
CBS 325.48NT P. expansum
*/*
NRRL 2162HT Aspergillus paradoxus (EF669670)
CBS 231.61NT P. sacculum
NRRL326NT Aspergillus niger
CBS 310.38NT Talaromyces flavus
0.99/98
*/*
Clade 10:
sect.
t Exilicaulis
E ili
li
Clade 6:
sect. Cinnamopurpurea
Clade 7:
sect. Ramigena
*/87
0.1
Clade 13: sect. Gracilenta
Fig. 10. Best-scoring Maximum Likelihood tree using RAxML based on partial RPB2 sequences and giving an overview of the members accommodated in sections Exilicaulis,
Cinnamopurpurea, Ramigena and Gracilenta. The BI posterior probabilities (pp) values and bootstrap (bs) percentages of the maximum likelihood (ML) analysis are presented
at the nodes (pp/bs). Values less than 70 % supported in the ML or less than 0.95 in the Bayesian analysis are indicated with a hyphen, whereas asterisks indicate good support
(100 % bs or 1.00 pp). The branches with more than 95 % bootstrap support and 1.00 posterior probability values are thickened. The bar indicates the number of substitutions
per site. The tree is rooted with Talaromyces flavus CBS 310.38NT.
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
Type: Penicillium ornatum Udagawa
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Penicillium inusitatum and P. fractum belong to section Fracta and
both are able to form a teleomorph. Pitt (1980) noted that these
two species are closely related, differing principally in conidiophore
structure. Both species share unusual ascospore morphology for
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
Penicillium species: the ascospores are spheroidal without flanges
or furrows and ornamented by spines. Furthermore, both species
grow slowly on agar media, form ampulliform to lanceolate phialides
and ellipsoidal conidia. Phylogenetically, section Fracta might be
related to section Torulomyces (72 % bs, < 0.95 pp). However,
ascospores produced by the members of the latter section have
two ridges (P. lagena, P. lassenii, P. cryptum).
Penicillium fractum Udagawa, Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan 9: 51.
1968.
Penicillium inusitatum Scott, Mycopathol. Mycol. Appl. 36: 20. 1968.
Clade 10: section Exilicaulis Pitt, The Genus Penicillium:
205. 1980.
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
Type: Penicillium restrictum Gilman & Abbott
= Eupenicillium section Lapidosa (Pitt) Stolk & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 23: 55.
1983.
Pitt (1980) defined section Exilicaulis for monoverticillate species
with stipes lacking a terminal vesicular swelling. The phylogenetic
delimitation is broader and also several species with an additional
branch are included (e.g. P. raciborski, P. melinii, P. velutinum,
P. corylophilum). This section largely corresponds with group 4
of Peterson (2000a); the only difference is that Peterson placed
P. turbatum in this clade, while our data shows that this species
belongs to section Turbata (group 6 fide Peterson (2000a)). Based
on Fig. 10 and data of Peterson et al. and Peterson 2000a, the
following species are included in section Exilicaulis:
Penicillium alutaceum Scott, Mycopathol. Mycol. Appl. 36: 17.
1968.
Penicillium atrosanguineum Dong, Ceská Mycol. 27: 174. 1973.
Penicillium burgense Quintanilla, Avances Nutr. Mejora Anim.
Aliment. 30: 176. 1990.
Penicillium catenatum Scott, Mycopathol. Mycol. Appl. 36: 24.
1968.
Penicillium chalybeum Pitt & Hocking, Mycotaxon 22: 204. 1985.
Penicillium cinerascens Biourge, Cellule 33: 308. 1923.
Penicillium cinereoatrum Chalabuda, Bot. Mater. Otd. Sporov.
Rast. 6: 167, 1950 (Frisvad et al. 1990c).
Penicillium citreonigrum Dierckx, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles 25: 86.
1901.
Penicillium corylophilum Dierckx, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles 25: 86.
1901.
Penicillium decumbens Thom, Bull. Bur. Anim. Ind. U.S. Dep. Agric.
118: 71. 1910.
Penicillium dimorphosporum Swart, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 55: 310.
1970.
Penicillium dravuni Janso, Mycologia 97: 445. 2005.
Penicillium erubescens Scott, Mycopathol. Mycol. Appl. 36: 14.
1968.
Penicillium fagi Ramírez & Martínez, Mycopathol. 63: 57. 1978.
Penicillium flavidostipitatum Ramírez & González, Mycopathol. 88:
3. 1984 (preliminary sequencing results show that this species
is closely related to P. namyslowskii).
Penicillium guttulosum Gilman & Abbott, Iowa State Coll. J. Sci. 1:
298. 1927 (Peterson et al. 2011).
Penicillium heteromorphum Kong & Qi, Mycosystema 1: 107. 1988.
Penicillium katangense Stolk, Ant. van Leeuwenhoek 34: 42. 1968.
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Penicillium lapidosum Raper & Fennell, Mycologia 40: 524. 1948.
Penicillium maclennaniae Yip, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 77: 202. 1981.
Penicillium melinii Thom, Penicillia: 273. 1930.
Penicillium menonorum Peterson, IMA Fungus 2: 122. 2011.
Penicillium meridianum Scott, Mycopathol. Mycol. Appl. 36: 12.
1968.
Penicillium namyslowskii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Aead. Polonc. Sci., Cl.
Sci. Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 479. 1927.
Penicillium nepalense Takada & Udagawa, Trans. Mycol. Soc.
Japan 24: 146. 1983.
Penicillium parvum Raper & Fennell, Mycologia 40: 508. 1948 (this
study).
Penicillium philippinense Udagawa & Y. Horie, J. Jap. Bot. 47: 341.
1972.
Penicillium pimiteouiense Peterson, Mycologia 91: 271. 1999.
Penicillium raciborskii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci.
Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 454. 1927.
Penicillium restrictum Gilman & Abbott, Iowa State Coll. J. Sci. 1:
297. 1927.
Penicillium rubefaciens Quintanilla, Mycopathol. 80: 73. 1982.
Penicillium rubidurum Udagawa & Horie, Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan
14: 381. 1973.
Penicillium smithii Quintanilla, Avances Nutr. Mejora Anim. Aliment.
23: 340. 1982 (syn. P. corynephorum, P. sabulosum).
Penicillium striatisporum Stolk, Ant. van Leeuwenhoek 35: 268.
1969.
Penicillium terrenum Scott, Mycopathol. Mycol. Appl. 36: 1. 1968.
Penicillium toxicarium Miyake, Rep. Res. Inst. Rice Improvement 1:
1. 1940 (nom. inval., Art. 36) (Serra et al. 2008).
Penicillium velutinum van Beyma, Zentralbl. Bakteriol., 2. Abt., 91:
353. 1935.
Penicillium vinaceum Gilman & Abbott, Iowa State Coll. J. Sci. 1:
299. 1927.
Clade 11: Section Lanata-divaricata Thom, The Penicillia:
328. 1930.
= section Funiculosa Thom, The Penicillia: 358. 1930.
= section Divaricatum Pitt, The Genus Penicillium: 238. 1980.
= section Furcatum Pitt, The Genus Penicillium: 272. 1980.
= Eupenicillium section Javanica (Pitt) Stolk & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 23: 55.
1983.
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
Type: Penicillium janthinellum Biourge
Most of the species, but not all, of section Lanata-divaricata grow
rapidly and form broadly spreading colonies. The majority of
the species belonging to this section are strongly divaricate and
the metulae are born terminally, subterminally and in intercalary
positions, and in the latter case intergrading with monoverticillate
conidiophores. Furthermore, the terminal cluster often consists of a
prolongation of the main axis. Species belonging to section Lanatadivaricata are mainly soil inhabitants, but may also occur on leaf
litter and vegetable remains in the later stage of decomposition
(Raper & Thom 1949, Houbraken et al. 2011c). Many species
of this section are unusually tolerant for heavy metals and some
species have been proposed as efficient biosorbent agents in the
bioleaching of zinc oxide, copper, lead and nickel (Burgstaller et al.
1992, Valix et al. 2001, Li et al. 2008).
Section Funiculosa is placed in synonymy with this section.
Thom (1930) already noted that species belonging section
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Funiculosa have affinity with members of section Lanata-typica and
that separation is hard to define. This observation is supported by
our data: many species mentioned in Thom’s section Funiculosa
belong to section Lanata-divaricata. Raper & Thom’s (1949)
subsection Divaricata largely corresponds with our section Lanatadivaricata. They noted that members of their subsection have
a definite relationship to Penicillium javanicum. Stolk & Samson
(1983) also discussed this relationship and they placed 26 species
in synonymy with Eupenicillium javanicum and P. simplicissimum.
Recently, a phylogenetic study showed that many of these
synonyms should be treated as separate species (Peterson
2000a, Houbraken et al. 2011c). This section largely corresponds
with Peterson’s (2000a) group 5 and the list provided here for this
section is mainly based on this data supplemented with data of
Houbraken et al. (2011c). Penicillium cluniae, P. griseopurpureum
and P. glaucoroseum were not included in these studies, though
unpublished data shows that these three species also belong to
this section.
The typification of P. brefeldianum, P. javanicum, P. levitum and
P. ehrlichii warrants further attention. Dodge (1933) described P.
brefeldianum as a holomorphic species. Pitt (1980) did not accept
teleomorph species in Penicillium and a neotype (CBS 233.81
= FRR 71 = IMI 216895) was selected because the original type
culture of P. brefeldianum distributed by Dodge no longer produced
cleistothecia. Subsequently, Dodge’s strain (CBS 235.81 = FRR
710 = IMI 216896 = NRRL 710) was used for the description
of the anamorph of Eupenicillium brefeldianum (as Penicillium
dodgei). Teleomorphs are allowed in Penicillium and therefore
Dodge’s P. brefeldianum is re-instated. Furthermore, Fig. 11 shows
that Dodge’s type strain (CBS 235.81) differs from Pitt’s neotype
(CBS 233.81) and this neotype is similar to the type of P. caperatum
(CBS 443.75T). Penicillium levitum, P. javanicum and P. ehrlichii
were described including a teleomorph. Pitt (1980) introduced
the new species names P. rasile, P. indonesiae and P. klebahnii
respectively, for the anamorphs of P. levitum, P. javanicum and P.
ehrlichii. These names are not used here for the same the reason
as mentioned under P. brefeldianum.
Penicillium abidjanum Stolk, Ant. van Leeuwenhoek 34: 49. 1968.
Penicillium araracuarense Houbraken, C. López-Q, Frisvad &
Samson, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 61: 1469. 2011.
Penicillium brasilianum Batista, Anais Soc. Biol. Pernambuco 15:
162. 1957.
Penicillium brefeldianum Dodge, Mycologia 25: 92. 1933 (syn. P.
dodgei).
Penicillium caperatum Udagawa & Horie, Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan
14: 371. 1973 (syn. E. brefeldianum sensu Pitt).
Penicillium cluniae Quintanilla, Avances Nutr. Mejora Anim. Aliment.
30: 174. 1990. (unpubl. data)
Penicillium coeruleum Sopp apud Biourge, Cellule 33: 102. 1923.
Penicillium cremeogriseum Chalabuda, Bot. Mater. Otd. Sporov.
Rast. 6: 168. 1950.
Penicillium daleae Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci.
Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 495. 1927.
Penicillium ehrlichii Klebahn, Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 48: 374.
1930.
Penicillium elleniae Houbraken, C. López-Q, Frisvad & Samson,
Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 61: 1470. 2011.
Penicillium glaucoroseum Demelius, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien
72: 72. 1923. (unpubl. data)
Penicillium griseopurpureum Smith, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 48: 275.
1965 (unpubl. data).
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Penicillium janthinellum Biourge, Cellule 33: 258. 1923.
Penicillium javanicum van Beyma, Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad.
Wetensch., Afd. Natuurk., Tweede Sect., 26: 17. 1929 (syn. P.
oligosporum, P. indonesiae).
Penicillium levitum Raper & Fennell, Mycologia 40: 511. 1948 (syn.
P. rasile).
Penicillium limosum Ueda, Mycoscience 36: 451. 1995.
Penicillium lineolatum Udagawa & Horie, Mycotaxon 5: 493. 1977.
Penicillium ludwigii Udagawa, Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan 10: 2.
1969.
Penicillium mariaecrucis Quintanilla, Avances Nutr. Mejora Anim.
Aliment. 23: 334. 1982.
Penicillium meloforme Udagawa & Horie, Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan
14: 376. 1973.
Penicillium ochrochloron Biourge, Cellule 33: 269. 1923.
Penicillium onobense Ramírez & Martínez, Mycopathol. 74: 44.
1981.
Penicillium oxalicum Currie & Thom, J. Biol. Chem. 22: 289. 1915.
Penicillium paraherquei Abe ex Smith, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 46:
335. 1963.
Penicillium penarojense Houbraken, C. López-Q, Frisvad &
Samson, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 61: 1471. 2011.
Penicillium piscarium Westling, Ark. Bot. 11: 86. 1911.
Penicillium pulvillorum Turfitt, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 23: 186. 1939
(Syn. P. ciegleri).
Penicillium raperi Smith, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 40: 486. 1957.
Penicillium reticulisporum Udagawa, Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan 9:
52. 1968. (syn. P. arvense).
Penicillium rolfsii Thom, Penicillia: 489. 1930.
Penicillium simplicissimum (Oudemans) Thom, Penicillia: 335.
1930.
Penicillium skrjabinii Schmotina & Golovleva, Mikol. Fitopatol. 8:
530. 1974.
Penicillium svalbardense Frisvad, Sonjak & Gunde-Cimerman, Ant.
van Leeuwenhoek 92: 48. 2007.
Penicillium vanderhammenii Houbraken, C. López-Q, Frisvad &
Samson, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 61: 1473. 2011.
Penicillium vasconiae Ramírez & Martínez, Mycopathol. 72: 189.
1980.
Penicillium wotroi Houbraken, C. López-Q, Frisvad & Samson, Int.
J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 61: 1474. 2011.
Penicillium zonatum Hodges & Perry, Mycologia 65: 697. 1973.
Clade 12: section Stolkia Houbraken & Samson, sect. nov.
MycoBank MB563130.
Sectio in Penicillio subgen. Aspergilloide. Conidiophoris pigmentatis, metulis
subapicalibus sympodialiter proliferantibus; phialidibus nullis.
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
Type: Penicillium stolkiae Scott
Brown conidiophores occur in two phylogenetic unrelated sections
of Penicillium s. str. One includes species belonging to section
Thysanophora (previously assigned to the genus Thysanophora)
(Iwamoto et al. 2002, Peterson & Sigler 2002) and the second
lineage is centered around P. stolkiae, another species with
conidiophores that also may be hyaline to definitely brown (Stolk
& Samson 1983). Peterson & Sigler (2002) described four species
with darkly melanised conidiophores, which are all closely related
to P. stolkiae, namely P. subarticum, P. canariense, P. pullum and
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
*/* CBS 121.68T P. reticulisporum
CBS 513.74T P. reticulisporum
*/* CBS 233.81 ”P. brefeldianum” sensu Pitt
0.98/82
CBS 443
443.75
75T P.
P caperatum
T P. javanicum
CBS
341.48
*/*
0.99/86
CBS 349.51T P.oligosporum
-/CBS 118135T P. elleniae
*/* CBS 345.48NT P. levitum
CBS 141.45 P. coeruleum
CBS 339.97T P. limosum
-/*/*
CBS 235
235.81
81T P.
P brefeldianum
-//
NT P. cremeogriseum
CBS
223.66
*/94
-/CBS 340.48NT P. janthinellum
0.99/79
*/93
CBS 281.58NT P. raperii
CBS 188.77T P. lineolatum
CBS 324.48T P. ehrlichii
-/-/CBS 445.74T P. meloforme
CBS 126216T P.
P vanderhammenii
d h
ii
*/99
-/CBS 113178T P. penarojense
-/CBS 211.28T P. daleae
0.96/CBS 246.67T P. abidjanum
CBS 992.72T P. zonatum
-/*/91 CBS 253.55T P. brasilianum
-/91 CBS 430.65T P. paraherqei
*/*
CBS 174.81NT P.onobense
-/- -/74
CBS 439.75NT P. skrjabinii
CBS 271.83T P. mariaecrucis
-/-/87
CBS 328.59T P. echinulonalgiovense nom. inval.
CBS 372.48NT P. simplicissimum
0.98/70 -/78
CBS 118171T P. wotroi
CBS 113149T P. araracuarense
*/98
CBS 122416T P. svalvardense
-/CBS 357.48NT P. ochrochloron
-/CBS 275.83T P. ciegleri
-/- */*
CBS 280.39NT P. pulvillorum
*/94
CBS 362.48T P. piscarium
CBS 368.48T P. rolfsii
-/CBS 339.79T P. vasconiae
CBS 111720HT P. canariense
-/CBS 331.48 P. pullum
*/97
CBS 111717 P. boreae
CBS 315.67HT P. stolkiae
*/*
-/- CBS 111719HT P. subarcticum
CBS 188.72HT P. donkii
CBS
C
S 125543
55 3T P.glabrum
g ab u
Clade 11:
sect. Lanata‐divaricata
Clade 12:
sect. Stolkia
0.1
Fig. 11. Best-scoring Maximum Likelihood tree using RAxML based on partial β-tubulin sequences and giving an overview of the members accommodated in sections Lanatadivaricata and Stolkia. The BI posterior probabilities (pp) values and bootstrap (bs) percentages of the maximum likelihood (ML) analysis are presented at the nodes (pp/bs).
Values less than 70 % supported in the ML or less than 0.95 in the Bayesian analysis are indicated with a hyphen, whereas asterisks indicate good support (100 % bs or 1.00
pp). The branches with more than 95 % bootstrap support and 1.00 posterior probability values are thickened. The bar indicates the number of substitutions per site. The tree
is rooted with Penicillium glabrum CBS 125543T.
P. boreae. None of these species demonstrate the sympodial
proliferation of subapical metulae and phialides present in section
Thysanophora. The following species are placed in section Stolkia
based on the data presented in Fig. 11 and of Peterson & Sigler
(2002).
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Penicillium boreae Peterson & Sigler, Mycol. Res. 106: 1112. 2002.
Penicillium canariense Peterson & Sigler, Mycol. Res. 106: 1113.
2002.
Penicillium donkii Stolk, Persoonia 7: 333. 1973.
Penicillium pullum Peterson & Sigler, Mycol. Res. 106: 1115. 2002.
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Penicillium stolkiae Scott, Mycopathol. Mycol. Appl. 36: 8. 1968.
Penicillium subarcticum Peterson & Sigler, Mycol. Res. 106: 1116.
2002.
Clade 13: section Gracilenta Houbraken & Samson, sect.
nov. MycoBank MB563131.
Sectio in Penicillio subgen. Aspergilloide. Coloniis 37 °C haud crescentibus, reverso
olivaceo-brunneo vel brunneo, conidiis saepe late ellipsoideis vel ellipsoideis.
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
Type: Penicillium gracilentum Udagawa & Horie
Four species are placed in section Gracilenta. Comparison of the
phenotypic characters did not reveal many significant similarities
among these species. All species did not grow at 37 °C and have
an olive-brown to brown reverse on agar media. With exception of
P. macrosclerotiorum, all species produced broadly ellipsoidal to
ellipsoidal conidia (Abe 1956, Udagawa & Horie 1973, Pitt 1980,
Takada & Udagawa 1983, Wang et al. 2007). The taxonomy and
phylogeny of these species is not well studied and future research
might reveal more shared characters.
Penicillium angustiporcatum Takada & Udagawa, Trans. Mycol.
Soc. Japan 24: 143. 1983.
Penicillium estinogenum Komatsu & Abe ex Smith, Trans. Br.
Mycol. Soc. 46: 335. 1963.
Penicillium macrosclerotiorum Wang, Zhang & Zhuang, Mycol.
Res. 111: 1244. 2007.
Penicillium gracilentum Udagawa & Horie, Trans. Mycol. Soc.
Japan 14: 373. 1973.
Clade 14: section Citrina Houbraken & Samson, sect. nov.
MycoBank MB563132.
Sectio in Penicillio subgen. Aspergilloide. Formatione conidiophorum symmetricorum
biverticillatorum.
In: Penicillium subgenus Aspergilloides
Type: Penicillium citrinum Thom
Species of section Citrina are commonly occurring in soil and the
majority of the species form symmetrical biverticillate conidiophores.
This section corresponds with group 1 of Peterson (2000a). The
taxonomy of section Citrina is recently revised by Houbraken et al.
(2010b, 2011b) and based on this data and Fig. 12, the following
species are placed in section Citrina:
Penicillium anatolicum Stolk, Ant. van Leeuwenhoek 34: 46. 1968.
Penicillium argentinense Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 70: 78. 2011.
Penicillium atrofulvum Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud. Mycol.
70: 80. 2011.
Penicillium aurantiacobrunneum Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson,
Stud. Mycol. 70: 80. 2011.
Penicillium cairnsense Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 70: 83. 2011.
Penicillium christenseniae Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 70: 85. 2011.
Penicillium chrzaszczii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci.
Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 464. 1927.
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Penicillium citrinum Thom, Bull. Bur. Anim. Ind. U.S. Dep. Agric.
118: 61. 1910.
Penicillium copticola Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud. Mycol.
70: 88. 2011.
Penicillium cosmopolitanum Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 70: 91. 2011.
Penicillium decaturense Peterson, Bayer & Wicklow, Mycologia 96:
1290. 2004.
Penicillium euglaucum van Beyma, Ant. van Leeuwenhoek 6: 269.
1940.
Penicillium galliacum Ramírez, Martínez & Berenguer, Mycopathol.
72: 30. 1980.
Penicillium godlewskii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci.
Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 466. 1927.
Penicillium gorlenkoanum Baghdadi, Nov. Sist. Niz. Rast. 5: 97.
1968.
Penicillium hetheringtonii Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Fung.
Div. 44: 125. 2010.
Penicillium manginii Duché & Heim, Trav. Cryptog. Louis L. Mangin:
450. 1931 (syn. P. pedemontanum, Houbraken et al. 2011b).
Penicillium miczynskii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci.
Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 482. 1927.
Penicillium neomiczynskii Cole, Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson,
Stud. Mycol. 70: 105. 2011.
Penicillium nothofagi Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud. Mycol.
70: 105. 2011.
Penicillium pancosmium Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 70: 108. 2011.
Penicillium pasqualense Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 70: 108. 2011.
Penicillium paxilli Bainier, Bull. Soc. Mycol. France 23: 95. 1907.
Penicillium quebecense Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 70: 111. 2011.
Penicillium raphiae Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud. Mycol.
70: 114. 2011.
Penicillium roseopurpureum Dierckx, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles 25:
86. 1901.
Penicillium sanguifluum (Sopp) Biourge, La Cellule 33: 105. 1923.
Penicillium shearii Stolk & Scott, Persoonia 4: 396. 1967.
Penicillium sizovae Baghdadi, Novosti Sist. Nizs. Rast. 1968: 103.
1968.
Penicillium steckii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci.
Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 469. 1927.
Penicillium sumatrense Szilvinyi, Archiv. Hydrobiol. 14, Suppl. 6:
535. 1936.
Penicillium terrigenum Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud. Mycol.
70: 125. 2011.
Penicillium tropicoides Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Fung. Div.
44: 127. 2010.
Penicillium tropicum Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Fung. Div. 44:
129. 2010.
Penicillium ubiquetum Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud. Mycol.
70: 127. 2011.
Penicillium vancouverense Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 70: 131. 2011.
Penicillium waksmanii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci.
Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 468. 1927.
Penicillium wellingtonense Cole, Houbraken, Frisvad & Samson,
Stud. Mycol. 70: 133. 2011.
Penicillium westlingii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci.
Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 473. 1927.
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
CBS 230.28T P. waksmanii
CBS 215.28T P. godlewskii
g
0.99/78 CBS 217.28T P. chrzaszczii
CBS 117509T P. decaturense
CBS 231.28T P. westlingii
CBS 265.65T P. pedemontanum
*/*
CBS 253.31NT P. manginii
CBS 101623T P. quebencense
*/98
CBS 220
220.28
28T P.
P miczynskii
T
*/93 CBS 126236 P. christenseniae
CBS 126234T P. raphiae
0.95/76
CBS 122402T P. pasqualense
CBS 130375T P. wellingtonense
CBS 109.66T P. atrofulvum
CBS 290.48T P. shearii
CBS 360
360.48
48NT P.
P paxilli
NRRL 779T P. sumatrense
*/*
NRRL 6181 P. sumatrense
CBS 416.69 P. sumatrense
*/* NRRL 35755 P. alicantinum
CBS 167.81T P. galliacum
CBS 148.83 P. sanguifluum
*/*
/
CBS 685
685.85
85 P.
P sanguifluum
ifl
CBS 266.29 P. roseopurpureum
*/* CBS 323.71NT P. euglaucum
CBS 479.66T P. anatolicum
*/* CBS 232.38 P. citrinum
*/*
CBS 139.45T P. citrinum
-/70
CBS 122392T P. hetheringtonii
CBS 413.69NT P. sizovae
*/99
*/91 CBS 112584T P. tropicum
CBS 122410T P. tropicoides
CBS 260.55NT P. steckii
*/99
CBS 408.69T P. gorlenkoanum
*/*
CBS 127354T P. terrigenum
CBS 127355T P. copticola
p
NT P. expansum
*/*
CBS
325.48
*/*/99
NRRL 35686 P. commune
NRRL 2162HT Aspergillus paradoxus (EF669670)
*/* CBS 231.60 P. ochrosalmoneum
*/94
CBS 489.66 P. ochrosalmoneum
CBS 247.56T P. isariiforme
NRRL326NT Aspergillus niger
CBS 310.38NT Talaromyces flavus
Clade 14:
sect. Citrina
Clade 5:
sect. Ochrosalmonea
0.1
Fig. 12. Best-scoring Maximum Likelihood tree using RAxML based on partial RPB2 sequences and giving an overview of the members accommodated in sections Citrina and
Ochrosalmonea. The BI posterior probabilities (pp) values and bootstrap (bs) percentages of the maximum likelihood (ML) analysis are presented at the nodes (pp/bs). Values
less than 70 % supported in the ML or less than 0.95 in the Bayesian analysis are indicated with a hyphen, whereas asterisks indicate good support (100 % bs or 1.00 pp). The
branches with more than 95 % bootstrap support and 1.00 posterior probability values are thickened. The bar indicates the number of substitutions per site. The tree is rooted
with Talaromyces flavus CBS 310.38NT.
Clade 15: Section Fasciculata Thom, The Penicillia: 374.
1930.
= Section Lanata-typica Thom, The Penicillia: 305. 1930.
= Section Viridicata Frisvad & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 49: 27. 2004.
In: Penicillium subgenus Penicillium
Type: Penicillium hirsutum Dierckx
www.studiesinmycology.org
Sections Lanata-typica and Viridicata are placed in synonymy with
section Fasciculata. Lanata-typica was erected for species with
vegetative aerial mycelium consisting of lanose, cottony or floccose
colonies and only a small portion of the species currently present
this section produce such structures (P. camemberti, P. commune, P.
caseifulvum). Most species of section Fasciculata have a granulose
or fasciculate colony texture and therefore the name Fasciculata is
given priority to Lanata-typica. The current definition of Fasciculata
41
Houbraken & Samson
is similar to that of Viridicata (Frisvad & Samson 2004). All species
grow rather quickly, except species in series Verrucosa, which
grow slowly. Most species this section have globose conidia and
rough-walled conidiophore stipes. All species are psychrotolerant
and grow well at low water activities (Frisvad & Samson 2004).
Frisvad & Samson (2004) accommodated 28 species in section
Viridicata (= Fasciculata). We excluded P. atramentosum from
this section and placed this species in section Paradoxa. This
species was placed in section Fasciculata based on its ability to
grow on creatine as sole nitrogen source and its occurrence on
cheese. However, Frisvad & Samson (2004) also noted that its
ability to grow at very high pH values and the formation of smoothwalled stipes sets it apart from section Fasciculata. Penicillium
osmophilum is tentatively accommodated in section Viridicata.
Figure 13 shows that this species is most closely related to this
section, but bootstrap support is lacking.
Penicillium albocoremium (Frisvad) Frisvad, Int. Mod. Tax. Meth.
Pen. Asp. Clas.: 275. 2000.
Penicillium allii Vincent & Pitt, Mycologia 81: 300. 1989.
Penicillium aurantiogriseum Dierckx, Ann. Soc. Scient. Brux. 25:
88. 1901.
Penicillium camemberti Thom, Bull. Bur. Anim. Ind. USDA 82: 33.
1906.
Penicillium caseifulvum Lund, Filt. & Frisvad, J. Food Mycol. 1: 97.
1998.
Penicillium cavernicola Frisvad & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 49: 31.
2004.
Penicillium commune Thom, Bull. Bur. Anim. Ind. USDA 118: 56.
1910.
Penicillium crustosum Thom, Penicillia: 399. 1930.
Penicillium cyclopium Westling, Ark. Bot. 11: 90. 1911.
Penicillium discolor Frisvad & Samson, Ant. Van Leeuwenhoek, 72:
120. 1997.
Penicillium echinulatum Fassatiová, Acta Univ. Carol. Biol. 12: 326.
1977.
Penicillium freii Frisvad & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 49: 28. 2004.
Penicillium hirsutum Dierckx, Ann. Soc. Scient. Brux. 25: 89. 1901.
Penicillium hordei Stolk, Ant. van Leeuwenhoek 35: 270. 1969.
Penicillium melanoconidium (Frisvad) Frisvad & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 49: 28. 2004.
Penicillium neoechinulatum (Frisvad, Filt. & Wicklow) Frisvad &
Samson, Stud. Mycol. 49: 28. 2004.
Penicillium nordicum Dragoni & Cantoni ex Ramírez, Adv. Pen.
Asp. Syst.: 139. 1985.
Penicillium osmophilum Stolk & Veenbaas-Rijks, Ant. van
Leeuwenhoek 40: 1. 1974.
Penicillium palitans Westling, Ark. Bot. 11: 83. 1911.
Penicillium polonicum Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Pol. Sci. Lett., Sér. B
1927: 445. 1927.
Penicillium radicicola Overy & Frisvad, Syst. Appl. Microbiol.: 633.
2003.
Penicillium solitum Westling, Ark. Bot. 11: 65. 1911.
Penicillium thymicola Frisvad & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 49: 29. 2004.
Penicillium tricolor Frisvad, Seifert, Samson & Mills, Can. J. Bot.
72: 937. 1994.
Penicillium tulipae Overy & Frisvad, Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 634.
2003.
Penicillium venetum (Frisvad) Frisvad, Int. Mod. Tax. Meth. Pen.
Asp. Clas.: 275. 2000.
Penicillium verrucosum Dierckx, Ann. Soc. Scient. Brux. 25: 88.
1901.
42
Penicillium viridicatum Westling, Ark. Bot. 11: 88. 1911.
Clade 16: Section Digitata (as "Digitatum") Frisvad &
Samson, Stud. Mycol. 49: 26. 2004.
In: Penicillium subgenus Penicillium
Type: Penicillium digitatum (Pers.:Fr.) Sacc.
Section Digitata is represented by one species, P. digitatum. This
species is unique in its combination of features. Conidiophore
and conidial structures are irregular and exceptionally large for
Penicillium, usually biverticillate rather than terverticillate and the
conidia are olive-green. The conidia are large and ellipsoidal to
cylindrical (Frisvad & Samson 2004). Partial β-tubulin (Samson et
al. 2004) and RPB2 data (Fig. 13) shows that this section is situated
in subgenus Penicillium. Frisvad & Samson (2004) is followed here
and this section is retained for P. digitatum.
Penicillium digitatum (Pers.:Fr.) Sacc., Fung. Ital.: 894. 1881.
Clade 17: Section Penicillium
= Bulliardium Biourge, La Cellule 33: 107. 1923 (= Asymetrica).
In: Penicillium subgenus Penicillium
Type: Penicillium expansum Link
Frisvad & Samson (2004) are followed here in their delimitation
of section Penicillium. The recently described species P.
brevistipitatum is added to this list, because it is closely related
to P. coprophilum (Fig. 13). The analysis of our partial RPB2 data
(Fig. 13) indicate sthat this section is polyphyletic. In contrast,
partial β-tubulin data (Samson et al. 2004) showed that members
of this section are on a single branch with 100 % bootstrap support.
Frisvad & Samson (2004) are followed and the following species
are accommodated in section Penicillium:
Penicillium brevistipitatum Wang & Zhuang, Mycotaxon 93: 234.
2005.
Penicillium clavigerum Demelius, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 72:
74. 1922.
Penicillium concentricum Samson, Stolk & Hadlok, Stud. Mycol. 11:
17. 1976.
Penicillium coprobium Frisvad, Mycologia 81: 853. 1989.
Penicillium coprophilum (Berk. & Curt.) Seifert & Samson, Adv.
Pen. Asp. Syst.: 145. 1985.
Penicillium dipodomyicola (Frisvad, Filt. & Wicklow) Frisvad, Int.
Mod. Meth. Pen. Asp. Clas.: 275. 2000.
Penicillium expansum Link, Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Mag.
Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk. 3: 16. 1809.
Penicillium formosanum Hsieh, Su & Tzean, Trans. Mycol. Soc.
R.O.C. 2: 159. 1987.
Penicillium gladioli McCulloch & Thom, Science, N.Y. 67: 217.
1928.
Penicillium glandicola (Oud.) Seifert & Samson, Adv. Pen. Asp.
Syst.: 147. 1985.
Penicillium griseofulvum Dierckx, Ann. Soc. Scient. Brux. 25: 88.
1901.
Penicillium italicum Wehmer, Hedwigia 33: 211. 1894.
Penicillium marinum Frisvad & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 49: 20.
2004.
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
Penicillium sclerotigenum Yamamoto, Scient. Rep. Hyogo Univ.
Agric., Agric. Biol. Ser. 2, 1: 69. 1955.
Penicillium ulaiense Hsieh, Su & Tzean, Trans. Mycol. Soc. R.O.C.
2: 161. 1987.
Penicillium vulpinum (Cooke & Massee) Seifert & Samson, Adv.
Pen. Asp. Syst.: 144. 1985.
Clade 18: section Roquefortorum (as "Roqueforti") Frisvad &
Samson, Stud. Mycol. 49: 16. 2004.
In: Penicillium subgenus Penicillium
Type: Penicillium roqueforti Thom
Frisvad & Samson (2004) erected section Roqueforti for rapidly
growing species forming strictly velutinous colonies. All species form
terverticillate rough walled conidiophores and are able to grow at low
pH values (e.g. on media containing 0.5 % acetic acid), at high alcohol
concentrations and at elevated CO2 levels. Members of this section
appear to have a symbiotic relationship with lactic acid bacteria and
certain acid-tolerant yeasts. Currently, four species are described in
this section (Frisvad & Samson 2004, Houbraken et al. 2010a):
Penicillium carneum (Frisvad) Frisvad, Microbiology, UK, 142: 546.
1996.
Penicillium paneum Frisvad, Microbiology (UK) 142: 546. 1996.
Penicillium psychrosexualis Houbraken & Samson, IMA Fungus
1:174. 2010.
Penicillium roqueforti Thom, Bull. Bur. Anim. Ind. US Dept. Agric.
82: 35, 1906.
Clade 19: section Chrysogena Frisvad & Samson, Stud.
Mycol. 49: 17. 2004.
In: Penicillium subgenus Penicillium
Type: Penicillium chrysogenum Thom
Members of the section Chrysogena are characterised by the formation
of ter- and/or quarterverticillate, smooth walled conidiophores with
relatively small phialides. Colonies have a velvety texture and species
are tolerant to salt and the majority is capable to produce penicillin
(Frisvad & Samson 2004). Four teleomorph species belong to section
Chrysogena: P. sinaicum, P. egyptiacum, P. molle and P. kewense
(Fig. 13). Penicillium egyptiacum was described as a holomorphic
species (van Beyma 1933). Pitt (1980) transferred the teleomorphic
state to Eupenicillium (E. egyptiacum) and introduced a new name
for the Penicillium morph (P. nilense). This name is not used here and
P. egyptiacum is re-instated. There are several taxonomic problems
concerning P. kewense. Brefeld (1874) was the first who described
the formation of a teleomorph in Penicillium. He identified the studied
species as “Penicillium crustaceum Fries, Penicillium glaucum Link”.
It is, however, very questionable whether the strains studied by
Brefeld truly represented the species described by Link and Fries
(Stolk & Scott 1967). Stolk & Scott (1967) are followed here; they
agreed that the fungus described by Smith (1961b) as Penicillium
kewense resembles Brefeld’s fungus. Based on the data of Samson
et al. (2004), Houbraken et al. (2011a) and Fig. 13, the following
species are accommodated in section Chrysogena.
Penicillium aethiopicum Frisvad, Mycologia 81: 848. 1990.
Penicillium chrysogenum Thom, Bull. Bur. Anim. Ind. U.S. Dep.
Agric. 118: 58. 1910.
www.studiesinmycology.org
Penicillium confertum (Frisvad et al.) Frisvad, Mycologia 81: 852.
1990.
Penicillium dipodomyis (Frisvad, Filtenborg & Wicklow) Banke,
Frisvad & Rosendahl, Int. Mod. Meth. Pen. Asp. Clas., 270.
2000.
Penicillium egyptiacum van Beyma, Zentralbl. Bakteriol., 2. Abt.,
88: 137. 1933. (syn. P. nilense).
Penicillium flavigenum Frisvad & Samson, Mycol. Res. 101: 620.
1997.
Penicillium kewense Smith, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 44: 42. 1961
(syn. E. crustaceum).
Penicillium molle Pitt, The Genus Penicillium: 148, 1980 [“1979”].
Penicillium mononematosum (Frisvad et al.) Frisvad, Mycologia 81:
857. 1990.
Penicillium nalgiovense Laxa, Zentralbl. Bakteriol., 2. Abt., 86: 160.
1932.
Penicillium persicinum Wang, Zhou, Frisvad & Samson, Ant. van
Leeuwenhoek 86: 177. 2004.
Penicillium rubens Biourge, Cellule 33: 265. 1923.
Penicillium sinaicum Udagawa & Ueda, Mycotaxon 14: 266. 1982.
Clade 20: section Turbata Houbraken & Samson, sect. nov.
MycoBank MB563133.
Sectio in Penicillio subgen. Penicillo. Conidiophoris delicatis et symmetricis,
biverticillatis; formatione acoris extroliti penicillici.
In: Penicillium subgenus Penicillium
Type: Penicillium turbatum Westling
Section Turbata is phylogenetically closely related to section
Paradoxa, and P. matriti, P. bovifimosum and P. turbatum are
accommodated in this section. These species form rather delicate
and symmetric biverticillate Penicillium conidiophores. Furthermore,
penicillic acid is produced by all these species, and P. bovifimosum,
P. turbatum and selected strains of P. matriti produce a fumagillinlike compound (Tuthill & Frisvad 2002).
Penicillium bovifimosum (Tuthill & Frisvad) Houbraken & Samson,
Stud. Mycol. 70: 47. 2011 (this study).
Penicillium matriti Smith, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 44: 44. 1961.
Penicillium turbatum Westling, Ark. Bot. 11: 128. 1911 (syn. E.
baarnense, P. baarnense, this study).
Clade 21: section Paradoxa Houbraken & Samson, sect. nov.
MycoBank MB563134.
Sectio in Penicillio subgen. Penicillo. Speciebus saepe cum conidiophoris typi
Aspergillus et odore molesti efferenti.
In: Penicillium subgenus Penicillium
Type: Aspergillus paradoxus Fennell & Raper
Aspergillus paradoxus, A. malodoratus, A. crystallinus and P.
atramentosum form a well-supported clade (85 % bs, 1.00 pp).
Phylogenetic and extrolite analysis shows that the first three
species belong in Penicillium and will be transferred to this genus
(R.A. Samson, unpubl. data). Besides a similar type of Aspergillus
anamorph, these three species also produce a strong, unpleasant
smell. Penicillium atramentosum is phylogenetically basal to these
three species. This species is alkaliphilic and unpublished results
show that this character is shared with A. paradoxus. More research
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Houbraken & Samson
CBS 222.28T P. polonicum
CBS 390.48NT P. viridicatum
CBS 324.89NT P. aurantiogriseum
CBS 641.95 P. melanoconidium
Clade 15: sect.
sect Fasciculata
CBS 603.74NT P. verrucosum
T
*/*
CBS 135.41 P. hirsutum
NRRL 35686 P. commune (EF198602)
-/CBS 332.48NT P. gladioli
CBS 462.72HT P. osmophilum
0.97/74
CBS 112082epiT P. digitatum
0.96/84
Clade 16: sect. Digitata
*/98
CBS 325.48NT P. expansum
-/NT
Clade
17: sect. Penicillium
CBS 339.48 P. italicum
CBS 101033T P. sclerotigenum
CBS 498.75epiT P. glandicola
-/*/99 CBS 221.30NT P. roqueforti
*/*
CBS 112297T P. carneum
-/- */*
Clade 18: sect. Roquefortorum
CBS 128036HT P. psychrosexualis
CBS 465.95 P. paneum
*/* CBS 110760 P. coprophilum
DTO 105I7T P. brevistipitatum
*/* CBS 306.48NT P. chrysogenum
CBS 205.57 P. rubens
*/96
-/CBS 419.89HT P. flavigenum
-/CBS 171.87HT P. confertum
-//
CBS 484.84HT P. aethiopicum
*/82
Clade 19: sect. Chrysogena
CBS 352.48NT P. nalgiovense
0.97/76
CBS 111235HT P. percisinum
0.97/CBS 244.32NT P. egyptiacum
CBS 456.72HT P. molle
*/99
CBS 344.61T P. kewense
*/93
-/CBS 279.82HT P. sinaicum
CBS 185.27NT P. griseofulvum
CBS 211.92HT P. formosanum
*/*
CBS 339.61 P. turbatum
*/* CBS 134.41 P. turbatum
*/97
CBS 383.48NT P. turbatum
CBS 116986 Penicillium sp.
Clade 20: sect. Turbata
*/*
-/CBS 102825T P. bovifimosum
*/* CBS 170.81 P. madriti
CBS 347.61HT P. madriti
*/* NRRL 4695 Asp. paradoxus (EF669671)
*/82
-/NRRL 2162HT Asp. paradoxus (EF669670)
*/*
NRRL 5083NT Asp. malodoratus (EF669672)
NRRL 5082NT Asp.
p crystallinus
y
((EF669669))
Clade 21: sect.
sect Paradoxa
*/85
/85
CBS 291.48NT P. atramentosum
T
0.99/97
CBS 122428 P. neocrassum
-/87
CBS 257.29T P. brevicompactum
*/*
CBS 711.68 P. fennelliae
-/CBS 227.28T P. bialowiezense
CBS 117192 Penicillium sp.
-/Clade 22: sect. Brevicompacta
*/93
CBS 117181 Penicillium sp.
*/88
T
CBS 430.69 P. tularense
*/95
-/CBS 122427T P. astrolabium
CBS 232.60NT P. olsonii
CBS 226.28NT P. soppii
CBS 114838isoT P. virgatum
-/79
CBS 119391T P. swiecickii
-/-/CBS 102888T P. jamesonlandense
CBS 127809T P. ribeum
-/80
Clade 23: sect. Ramosa
CBS
345.61T P. kojigenum
-/80
NT
*/* CBS 106.11 P. lanosum
*/*
*/*
CBS 261.33NT P. raistrickii
CBS 277.83NT P. sajarovii
CBS 683.89HT P. scabrosum
*/87
*/88
-/0 99/86
0.99/86
*/90
*/*
Fig. 13. Best-scoring Maximum Likelihood tree using RAxML based on partial RPB2 sequences and giving an overview of the members accommodated in subgenus Penicillium
(clades 15–25). The BI posterior probabilities (pp) values and bootstrap (bs) percentages of the maximum likelihood (ML) analysis are presented at the nodes (pp/bs). Values
less than 70 % supported in the ML or less than 0.95 in the Bayesian analysis are indicated with a hyphen, whereas asterisks indicate good support (100 % bs or 1.00 pp). The
branches with more than 95 % bootstrap support and 1.00 posterior probability values are thickened. The bar indicates the number of substitutions per site. The tree is rooted
with Talaromyces flavus CBS 310.38NT.
44
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
CBS 161.81T P. murcianum
CBS 300.48NT P. canescens
CBS 410.69IsoT P. yarmokense
-/CBS 216.28T P. jensensii
CBS 221.28NT P. janczewskii
*/97
*/99 CBS 100492T P. antarcticum
-/CBS 241.56NT P. atrovenetum
-/CBS 137.41NT P. novae-zeelandiae
0.97/85 */72
CBS 123.65NT P. coralligerum
*/* CBS 316.67HT P. senticosum
-/CBS 231
231.61
61NT P.
P sacculum
-/IBT 15460T P. fellutanum
CBS 139.45NT P. citrinum
*/*
CBS 340.48NT P. janthinellum
-/CBS 315.67HT P. stolkiae
-/CBS 125543T P. glabrum
CBS 599.73HT P. gracilentum
-/- */72
CBS 367.48NT P. restrictum
CBS 185.65NT P. lagena
CBS 287.36NT P. sclerotiorum
NRRL 326NT Aspergillus niger
CBS 310.38NT Talaromyces
y
flavus
0.1
0.99/97
*/97
*/99
Clade 24: sect. Canescentia
Clade 25: section Eladia
Fig. 13. (Continued).
is needed to determine whether A. malodoratus and A. crystallinus
also share this feature.
Penicillium atramentosum Thom, Bull. Bur. Anim. Ind. US Dept.
Agric. 118: 65. 1910.
Aspergillus crystallinus Kwon-Chung & Fennell, The Genus
Aspergillus: 471. 1965.
Aspergillus malodoratus (Kwon-Chung & Fennell), The Genus
Aspergillus: 468. 1965.
Aspergillus paradoxus Fennell & Raper, Mycologia 47: 69.
Clade 22: section Brevicompacta Thom, The Penicillia: 289.
1930.
= section Coronata Pitt, The Genus Penicillium: 392, 1980.
In: Penicillium subgenus Penicillium
Type: Penicillium brevicompactum Dierckx
Members of the section Brevicompacta are characterised by
conidiophores with long and broad stipes. The conidial heads look
superficially like Aspergillus heads in the stereomicroscope. Section
Coronata, typified with P. olsonii, is placed here in synonymy.
Recently, P. neocrassum and P. astrolobatum were described in
this section (Serra & Peterson 2007) and partial RPB2 data (Fig.
13) show that also P. tularense and P. fennelliae belong here. The
production of the extrolites asperphenamate and the unknown
metabolite O (Frisvad & Samson 2004) is shared by P. olsonii, P.
brevicompactum and P. bialowiezense. More research in needed to
determine whether these metabolites are also produced by the other
members of section Brevicompacta. Based on literature (Frisvad &
Samson 2004, Peterson 2004, Serra & Peterson 2007) and partial
RPB2 data (Fig. 13) the following species are accommodated in
section Brevicompacta:
Penicillium astrolobatum Serra & Peterson, Mycologia 99: 80. 2007.
Penicillium bialowiezense Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Pol. Sci. Lett.,
Sér. B, 1927: 462. 1927 (syn. P. biourgeianum).
Penicillium brevicompactum Dierckx, Ann. Soc. Scient. Brux. 25:
88. 1901.
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Penicillium fennelliae Stolk, Ant. van Leeuwenhoek 35: 261. 1969.
Penicillium neocrassum Serra & Peterson, Mycologia 99: 81. 2007.
Penicillium olsonii Bainier & Sartory, Ann. Mycol. 10: 398. 1912.
Penicillium tularense Paden, Mycopathol. Mycol. Appl. 43: 264.
1971.
Clade 23: section Ramosa (as “Ramosum”) Stolk & Samson,
Adv. Pen. Asp. Syst.: 179. 1985.
In: Penicillium subgenus Penicillium
Type: Penicillium lanosum Westling
Figure 13 shows that section Ramosa is not well resolved and
members of this section are on a well-supported branch with
section Brevicompacta members (100 % bs, 1.00 pp). We split this
clade in two sections based on phenotypic characters and extrolite
patterns. Members of the section Lanosa form biverticillate or
terverticillate conidiophores with divergent rami (twice biverticillate),
while members of sect. Brevicompacta have appressed branches.
Penicillium jamesonlandense, P. lanosum, P. ribeum, P. raistrickii,
P. soppii and P. swiecickii produce different combinations of
cycloaspeptide, kojic acid and griseofulvin (Frisvad & Filtenborg
1990, Frisvad et al. 2006) and these extrolites are not been found
in section Brevicompacta (Frisvad & Samson 2004). More research
is needed to determine if the other members of this section also
produce cycloaspeptide, kojic acid and/or griseofulvin.
Penicillium scabrosum is basal to the members of sections
Brevicompacta and Ramosa. This species is tentatively
accommodated in sect. Ramosa based on the formation of
divaricate branches (Frisvad et al. 1990a). In contrast, cyclopenin,
cyclopenol, viridicatin, penigequinolone A and B and fumagillin are
produced by P. scabrosum and these extrolites are not detected in
species belonging to sect. Ramosa (Frisvad et al. 1990a, Larsen
et al. 1999). In the original description of P. virgatum, a relationship
with P. daleae was suggested (Kwasna & Nirenberg 2005).
However, these two species are unrelated and our partial RPB2
data suggest P. virgatum is related to members of section Ramosa
(Fig. 13). Based on data presented in Fig. 13 and in Frisvad et al.
(2006), the following species are placed in section Ramosa:
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Penicillium jamesonlandense Frisvad & Overy, Int. J. Syst. Evol.
Microbiol. 56: 1435. 2006.
Penicillium kojigenum Smith, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 44: 43. 1961.
Penicillium lanosum Westling, Ark. Bot. 11: 97. 1911.
Penicillium raistrickii Smith, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc.18: 90. 1933.
Penicillium ribeum Frisvad & Overy, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 56:
1436. 2006.
Penicillium sajarovii Quintanilla, Avances Nutr. Mejora Anim.
Aliment. 22: 539. 1981.
Penicillium scabrosum Frisvad, Samson & Stolk, Persoonia 14:
177. 1990.
Penicillium simile Davolos, Pietrangeli, Persiani & Maggi, J. Syst.
Evol. Microbiol., in press.
Penicillium soppii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci. Math.,
Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 476. 1927.
Penicillium swiecickii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Pol. Sci. Lett., Sér. B
1927: 474. 1927.
Penicillium virgatum Nirenberg & Kwasna, Mycol. Res. 109: 977.
2005.
Type: Penicillium sacculum Dale
Clade 24: section Canescentia Houbraken & Samson, sect.
nov. MycoBank MB563135.
Over 250 Penicillium and Eupenicillium species are mentioned in
the list of accepted Penicillium species (Pitt et al. 2000) and a fair
amount of these do not belong to Penicillium s. str. The majority
of these excluded species are currently classified in Talaromyces
and an overview of species is given by Samson et al. (2011). Only
a small number of species do not belong to either genus. These
include P. arenicola, P. inflatum, P. kabunicum, P. lineatum, P.
megasporum and P. moldavicum. Figure 1 shows that P. arenicola
is closely related to Phialomyces (clade 6) and P. megasporum
belongs to the clade 3 (Hamigera/Warcupiella). Both species
should be transferred to other genera. Unpublished data (R.A.
Samson) shows that P. inflatum belongs to Aspergillus and this
species will be combined in that genus. Penicillium kabunicum and
P. moldavicum are phylogenetically related and were included in
the initial analyses of Trichocomaceae. Both species were together
on a single branch and did not fit with any members of this family
(J. Houbraken, unpubl. data). These two species belong to another
(related) family and might represent a new genus. Penicillium
lineatum was described as the anamorph of Hamigera striata (Pitt
1980). Hamigera striata is accommodated in clade 3 (Fig. 1) and
does therefore not belong to Penicillium s. str. Penicillium syriacum
was included in the list of accepted names (Pitt et al. 2000), but the
illustration and description of P. syriacum by Baghdadi (1968) and
examination of ex-type material from ATCC, CBS and IMI indicated
a mixed culture. This species is considered a nomen ambiguum
(Christensen et al. 1999).
The phylogenetic position of P. resedanum needs further
attention. Pitt (1980) and Ramírez (1982) placed P. resedanum in
section Aspergilloides based on the formation of monoverticillate
conidiophores. Pitt (1980) already noted that this species form
acerose phialides with weak growth on G25N, suggesting a
relationship with Talaromyces (and subgenus Biverticillium). A
BLAST search on GenBank with ITS sequences of NRRL 578T
(AF033398) indicates a relationship with Talaromyces.
Penicillium griseolum is listed as a synonym of P. restrictum
(Pitt et al. 2000). However, Fig. 7 shows that these species are
phylogenetically unrelated. In our study, we did not find any
species closely related to P. griseolum and this species might
represent a separate section. We have chosen not to proceed with
the description of this new section for this species until additional
related species are described.
Sectio in Penicillio subgen. Penicillo. Structuris symmetricis biverticillatis, raro
cum ramulis pluribus. Phialidibus simplicibus, brevibus (7–9 µm), cum collo brevi,
interdum distincte attenuato.
In: Penicillium subgenus Penicillium
Type: Penicillium canescens Sopp
Members of section Canescentia are soil-borne and are
characterised by the formation of symmetrical biverticillate
structures with infrequently an additional branch. Phialides are
simple and short (7–9 µm) with a broadly cylindrical to slightly
or more definitely swollen base and a short, occasionally more
pronounced narrowed neck. This section has not been a subjected
to a thorough phylogenetic study and unpublished sequence
results show that several synonyms should be raised to species
level. Partial RPB2 data (Fig. 13) shows that following species are
placed in section Canescentia.
Penicillium canescens Sopp, Skr. Vidensk.-Selsk. Christiana,
Math.-Naturvidensk. Kl. 11: 181. 1912.
Penicillium jensenii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci.
Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 494. 1927.
Penicillium yarmokense Baghdadi, Nov. Sist. Niz. Rast. 5: 99. 1968.
Penicillium janczewskii Zaleski, Bull. Int. Acad. Polon. Sci., Cl. Sci.
Math., Sér. B, Sci. Nat., 1927: 488. 1927.
Penicillium antarcticum Hocking & McRae, Polar Biology 21: 103.
1999.
Penicillium atrovenetum Smith, Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 39: 112.
1956.
Penicillium novae-zeelandiae van Beyma, Ant. van Leeuwenhoek
6: 275. 1940.
Penicillium coralligerum Nicot & Pionnat, Bull. Soc. Mycol. France
78: 245. 1963 [“1962”].
Clade 25: section Eladia (Smith) Stolk & Samson, Adv. Pen.
Asp. Syst.: 169. 1985.
In: Penicillium subgenus Penicillium
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The genus Eladia is synonymised with Penicillium and two species
are placed here in section Eladia: P. sacculum and P. senticosum
(Fig. 7, clade 25 and Fig. 13). Penicillium sacculum and P.
senticosum grow rather well on MEA (and poorly on Czapek agar)
and their colonies on MEA are velvety and dull-green, brownishgreen or olive-brown coloured. Phialides are born irregularly on the
stipes, subterminally as well as terminally, short, 4–7 µm, with a
swollen base, and at the apex tapering abruptly into a short narrow
neck. Conidia are distinctly ornamented (Smith 1961b, Pitt 1980,
Stolk & Samson 1983, Stolk & Samson 1985). No type material
could be obtained from Eladia pachyphialis and Eladia tibetensis
and their taxonomic position remains uncertain. Based on their
protologues, it is likely that these species belong to Penicillium.
Penicillium sacculum Dale apud Biourge, Cellule 33: 323. 1923.
Penicillium senticosum Scott, Mycopathol. Mycol. Appl. 36: 5. 1968.
Excluded and unclassified Penicillia
Phylogeny of Penicillium and Trichocomaceae
Penicillium arenicola Chalabuda, Bot. Mater. Otd. Sporov. Rast. 6:
162. 1950 (= clade 6, related to Phialomyces).
Penicillium inflatum Stolk & Malla, Persoonia 6: 197. 1971.
(= Aspergillus inflatus, R.A. Samson, unpubl. data).
Penicillium kabunicum Baghdadi, Novosti Sist. Nizs. Rast.: 98.
1968 (unrelated to Penicillium, J. Houbraken, unpubl. data).
Penicillium lineatum Pitt, The Genus Penicillium: 485. 1980 [“1979”]
(= Hamigera striata).
Penicillium megasporum Orpurt & Fennell, Mycologia 47: 233.
1955 (= clade 3, related to Hamigera and Warcupiella).
Penicillium moldavicum Milko & Beliakova, Novosti Sist. Nizs.
Rast. 1967: 255. 1967 (unrelated to Penicillium, J. Houbraken,
unpubl. data).
Penicillium syriacum Baghdadi, Novosti Sist. Nizs. Rast. 1968: 111.
1968 (nomen ambiguum, Christensen et al. 1999).
Character analysis
Penicillium coniferophilum Houbraken & Samson, nom.
nov. MycoBank MB561968.
Basionym: Thysanophora striatispora Barron & Cooke,
Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 40: 353. 1970, non Penicillium
striatisporum Stolk, Ant. van Leeuwenhoek 35: 268. 1969.
Note: The name P. striatisporum is already occupied and therefore
a new name is proposed.
Penicillium glaucoalbidum (Desmazières) Houbraken &
Samson, comb. nov. MycoBank MB561965.
Basionym: Sclerotium glaucoalbidum Desmazières, Annales des
Sciences Naturelles, Botanique 16: 329. 1851.
= Thysanophora glaucoalbida (Desm.) Morelet, Annales de la Société des
Sciences Naturelles et Archéologie de Toulon et Var 20: 104. 1968.
= Thysanophora penicillioides (Roumeguère) Kendrick, Can. J. Bot. 39: 820. 1961.
The classification proposed in the monographs of Raper & Thom
(1949), Pitt (1980) and Ramírez (1982) is not concordant with the
new classification system proposed here. One of the most important
characters in these monographs is the branching pattern of the
Penicillium conidiophore. Our study shows that monoverticillate
(Aspergilloid) conidiophores occur in various sections (e.g. clades
1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 12, 25). Sections Aspergilloides (clade 1) and Eladia
(clade 25) comprise only strictly monoverticillate species, while
mono- and biverticillate species are intermingled in the other clades.
The occurrence of both structures in multiple phylogenetic clades
(sections) indicates that reduction of the Penicillium conidiophore
might have occurred various times. Most of the species belonging
to section Citrina (clade 14) are symmetrically biverticillate
and occasionally additional branches with the same branching
pattern as the main axis (“double symmetrically biverticillate”)
occurs. Species belonging to section Lanata-divaricata are mainly
divaricate and the metulae are borne terminally, subterminally and
in intercalary positions. Terverticillate conidiophores mainly occur
in clades 15–18 and section Chrysogena (clade 19) comprises
species with quarterverticillate condiophores. The monoverticillate
species Penicillium sacculum and P. senticosum belong to clade 25.
This clade is positioned in subgenus Penicillium and has therefore
a unique branching pattern for this subgenus. Growth rates on agar
media are also frequently used for classification. Some sections
mainly comprise fast growing species (e.g. clades 1, 2, 11, 16, 18,
19, 25) while in other clades slow growing species predominate
(e.g. clades 3, 6, 8, 9). The new proposed sectional classification
will serve as a starting point to investigate phenotypic characters
used for classification.
Note: Virtually all of the published information relating to P.
glaucoalbidum has used the binomial Thys. penicillioides. Iwamoto
et al. (2005) aggregated sequence data of seven European and
North American P. glaucoalbidum (as Thys. penicillioides) strains
with Japanese strains. The strains formed nine lineages and
according to phylogenetic species recognition by the concordance
of genealogies, respective lineages correspond to phylogenetic
species.
Taxonomic implications
Basionym: Chromocleista malachitea Yaguchi & Udagawa, Trans.
Mycol. Soc. Japan 34: 102. 1993.
Penicillium asymmetricum (Subramanian & Sudha)
Houbraken & Samson, comb. nov. MycoBank MB561963.
Basionym: Thysanophora asymmetrica Subramanian & Sudha,
Kavaka 12: 88. 1985.
Penicillium bovifimosum (Tuthill & Frisvad) Houbraken &
Samson, comb. nov. MycoBank MB561957.
Basionym: Eupenicillium bovifimosum Tuthill & Frisvad, Mycologia
94: 241. 2002.
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Penicillium hennebertii Houbraken & Samson, nom. nov.
MycoBank MB561964.
Basionym: Thysanophora canadensis Stolk & Hennebert,
Persoonia 5: 189. 1968, non Penicillium canadense Smith, Trans.
Br. mycol. Soc. 39: 113. 1956.
Note: A new name was sought for this species, as the species
name “canadensis” is already occupied.
Penicillium laeve (K. Ando & Manoch) Houbraken &
Samson, comb. nov. MycoBank MB561960.
Basionym: Torulomyces laevis K. Ando & Manoch, Mycoscience
39: 317. 1998.
Penicillium longisporum (Kendrick) Houbraken & Samson,
comb. nov. MycoBank MB561966.
Basionym: Thysanophora longispora Kendrick, Can. J. Bot. 39:
826. 1961.
Penicillium malachiteum (Yaguchi & Udagawa) Houbraken
& Samson, comb. nov. MycoBank MB561971.
= Geosmithia malachitea Yaguchi & Udagawa, Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan 34:
102. 1993.
Penicillium melanostipe Houbraken & Samson, nom. nov.
MycoBank MB561970.
Basionym: Thysanophora verrucosa Mercado, Gené & Guarro,
Mycotaxon 67: 419. 1998, non Penicillium verrucosum Dierckx,
Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 25: 88. 1901.
Note: The name Penicillium verrucosus is already occupied and
therefore the name melanostipe, which is referring to the pigmented
stipe of this species, is proposed.
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Penicillium ovatum (K. Ando & Nawawi) Houbraken &
Samson, comb. nov. MycoBank MB561961.
Basionym: Torulomyces ovatus K. Ando & Nawawi, Mycoscience
39: 317. 1998.
Penicillium parviverrucosum (K. Ando & Pitt) Houbraken &
Samson, comb. nov. MycoBank MB561962.
Basionym: Torulomyces parviverrucosus K. Ando & Pitt,
Mycoscience 39: 317. 1998.
Penicillium porphyreum Houbraken & Samson, nom. nov.
MycoBank MB561959.
Basionym: Monocillium humicola Barron var. brunneum M.
Christensen & Backus, Mycologia 56: 498. 1964, non Penicillium
brunneum Udagawa, J. agric. Sci. Tokyo Nogyo Daigaku 5: 16. 1959.
= Torulomyces brunneus (M. Christensen & Backus) K. Ando, Mycoscience
39: 314. 1998.
Note: The name Penicillium brunneum is already occupied
(Udagawa et al. 1959) and therefore the name P. porphyreum is
proposed. The epithet porphyreum refers to the red-brown reverse
of this species.
Penicillium saturniforme (Wang & Zhuang) Houbraken &
Samson, comb. nov. MycoBank MB561958.
Basionym: Eupenicillium saturniforme
Mycopathologia 167: 300. 2009.
Wang
&
Zhuang,
Penicillium taiwanense (Matsushima) Houbraken &
Samson, comb. nov. MycoBank MB561969.
Basionym: Phialomyces taiwanensis Matsushima, Matsushima
Mycological Memoirs 4: 12. 1985.
= Thysanophora taiwanensis (Matsush.) Mercado, Gené & Guarro, Mycotaxon
67: 421. 1998.
Note: This species was originally described as Phialomyces
taiwanensis. Based on micro-morphological features, MercadoSierra et al. (1998) transferred this species to Thysanophora
taiwanensis.
Acknowledgements
Neriman Yilmaz and Barbara Favie are thanked for testing various primer pairs and
generating sequences. Uwe Braun is thanked for providing the Latin diagnosis and
advice on nomenclature issues. Jens Frisvad is acknowledged for providing various
isolates and the reviewers for their useful suggestions. Marjan Vermaas is thanked
for preparing the photographic plates.
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Table S1. Penicillium strains used in the study of the infrageneric classification (addition to those mentioned in Table 1).
Name
Collection no.
Origin
GenBank accession
no.
Aspergillus crystallinus
NRRL 5082NT = CBS 479.65 = ATCC 16833 = IMI
139270
Forest soil, Costa Rica
EF669669RPB2
Aspergillus malodoratus
NRRL 5083NT = CBS 490.65 = IMI 172289 = ATCC
16834
Forest soil, Costa Rica
EF669672RPB2
Aspergillus paradoxus
NRRL 2162HT = ATCC 16918 = IMI 061446
Holotype of Hemicarpenteles paradoxus; dung of
opossum, Wellington, New-Zealand
EF669670RPB2
NRRL 4695 = IMI 086829
Unknown source, India
EF669671RPB2
Eladia infata
CBS 127833HT
Soil, Sichuan Prov., Kangding County, China
JN406643RPB2
P. abidjanum
CBS 246.67 = ATCC 18385 = IMI 136244
Savannah soil, Ivory Coast
GU981650BT
P. adametzioides
CBS 313.59T = ATCC 18306 = IMI 068227 = NRRL
3405
Soil, Japan
JN406578RPB2
P. aethiopicum
CBS 484.84HT = FRR 2942 = IBT 21501 = IBT 5903 =
IMI 285524
Grain of Hordeum vulgare, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
JN406548RPB2
P. alicantinum
NRRL 35755
Unknown source
EU427254RPB2
P. anatolicum
CBS 479.66HT = IBT 30764
Soil, Turkey
JN606593RPB2
P. angulare
CBS 130293 = IBT 27051 = NRRL 28157
Old polypore, New Mexico, USA
JN406554RPB2
P. angustipurcatum
CBS 202.84HT = NHL 6481
Forest soil, Gandaki, near Nandanda, Nepal
JN406617RPB2
P. antarcticum
CBS 100492 = FRR 4989
Soil scraping, near nest site of Southern Fulmar Ardery
Island, Windmill Islands, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
JN406653RPB2
P. araracuarense
CBS 113149T = IBT 23247
Leaf litter exposed for 6 months, 36-year old forest,
Araracuara, Colombia
GU981642BT
P. ardesiacum
CBS 497.73NT = ATCC 24719 = IMI 174719
Soil near Vitis vinifera, Alma-Ata Region, Kazakhstan
JN406547RPB2
P. asperosporum
CBS 324.83 = IMI 080450
Holotype of P. echinosporum; resin of Eucalyptus
tereticornis, Prov. Guizhon, Guiyang, China
JN406574RPB2
P. astrolabium
CBS 122427T = NRRL 35611
Wine grapes, Portugal
JN406634RPB2
P. atramentosum
CBS 291.48NT = ATCC 10104 = IBT 6616 = IMI
039752 = IMI 039752ii = MUCL 29071 = MUCL 29126
= NRRL 795
French Camembert cheese, Storrs, Connecticut, USA
JN406584RPB2
P. atrofulvum
CBS 109.66T = IBT 30032
Soil, Katanga, Zaire
JN606620RPB2
P. atrosanguineum
CBS 380.75
Grain in silo Triticum aestivum, Praha, Czech Republic
JN406557RPB2
P. aurantiogriseum
CBS 324.89NT = ATCC 48920 = IBT 14016 = IMI
195050 = MUCL 29090 = NRRL 971
Unrecorded source
JN406573RPB2
P. bialowiezense
CBS 227.28T = IBT 23044 = IMI 092237
Soil under conifers, Bialowiezska Puszcza, Poland
JN406604RPB2
P. bilaiae
CBS 221.66 = ATCC 22348 = ATCC 48731 = IJFM
5025 = IMI 113677 = MUCL 31187
Soil, Kiev, Ukraine
JN406610RPB2
P. boreae
CBS 111717 = NRRL 31002
Petroleum contaminated soil, near Norman Wells,
Northwest-Territories, Canada
JN617715BT
P. bovifimosum
CBS 102825T = RMF 9598
Dry cow manure, Wyoming, USA
JN406649RPB2
P. brasilianum
CBS 253.55 = ATCC 12072 = FRR 3466
Herbarium specimen, Recife, Brazil
GU981629BT
P. brefeldianum
CBS 235.81T = IFO 31731 = IMI 216896 = NRRL 710
Type of P. brefeldianum and P. dodgei; human
alimentary tract
GU981623BT
P. brevicompactum
CBS 257.29NT = ATCC 10418 = ATCC 9056 = IBT
23045 = IMI 040225 = MUCL 28647 = MUCL 28813 =
MUCL 28935 = MUCL 30240 = MUCL 30241 = MUCL
30256 = MUCL 30257 = NRRL 2011 = NRRL 862 =
NRRL 864
Unrecorded source, Belgium
JN406594RPB2
P. brevissimum
CBS 763.68T
Mixed cereal feed for birds, Lucknow, India
JN406534RPB2
P. brevistipitatum
CBS 122277 = AS 3.6887
Soil, China
JN406528RPB2
P. brocae
CBS 116113HT = IBT 26293 = NRRL 31472
Faeces of coffee berry borer, Chiapas, Tapachula,
Mexico
JN406639RPB2
P. burgense
CBS 325.89T
Uncultivated soil, Highlands north of Burgos, Spain
JN406572RPB2
P. canariense
CBS 111720HT = NRRL 31003
Soil, Canary Islands, Spain
JN617714BT
P. caperatum
CBS 233.81 = IFO 31730 = IMI 216895
Neotype of E. brefeldianum fide Pitt (1979, p. 119); soil,
Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, NSW, Australia
GU981659BT
HT
T
T
IsoT
= FRR 1726 = IMI 197488
NT
HT
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Table S1. (Continued).
Name
Collection no.
Origin
GenBank accession
no.
P. caperatum
CBS 443.75T = ATCC 28046
Soil, Papua New Guinea
GU981660BT
P. capsulatum
CBS 301.48NT = ATCC 10420 = IJFM 5120 = IMI
040576 = NRRL 2056
Optical instrument, Canal Zone, Panama
JN406582RPB2
P. carneum
CBS 112297T = IBT 6884
Mouldy rye bread, Denmark
JN406642RPB2
P. chalybeum
CBS 255.87 = FRR 2658 = IMI 288722
Dried fish, Decapterus sp., Indonesia
JN406596RPB2
P. charlesii
CBS 326.59 = ATCC 18225 = IMI 068223
Type of Penicillium decumbens var. atrovirens and P.
atrovirens; soil, Japan
JN406571RPB2
P. charlesii
CBS 330.59 = IMI 068224 = MUCL 15638
Type of P. fellutanum var. nigrocastaneum; soil, Japan
JN406570RPB2
P. ‘chermesinum’
CBS 305.48 = ATCC 10424 = IMI 040577 = NRRL
2049
Air, Panama
JN406581RPB2
CBS 231.81 = IMI 191730 = NRRL 2048
Neotype of P. chermesinum sensu Pitt; deteriorating
military equipment Florida, USA
JN406600RPB2
P. christensenae
CBS 126236T = IBT 23355
Soil in native forest, “Lowland forest” east / north east
side of Costa Rica about 30 km inland from Limon and
the Caribbean.
JN606624RPB2
P. chrzaszczii
CBS 217.28T = MUCL 29167 = NRRL 903 = NRRL
1741 = IBT 18226 = IBT 11222 = IBT 16409
Woodland soil, Puszcza Bialowieska Forest, Poland
JN606628RPB2
P. ciegleri
CBS 275.83T = IMI 257691
Rye grain, Spain
GU981671BT
P. cinereoatrum
CBS 222.66
113676
Forest soil, Kiev, Ukraine
JN406608RPB2
P. cinnamopurpureum
CBS 847.68T = ATCC 18489 = CBS 429.65
Milled rice, Japan
JN406533RPB2
P. citreonigrum
NRRL 1187 = IMI 092212 = MUCL 29230 = MUCL
29783 = NRRL 1187
Type of P. citreoviride; unknown source
EF198501RPB2
NRRL 2046 = CBS 308.48 = ATCC 10425 = IMI 40575
= NRRL 2046
Deteriorating military equipment, Florida, USA
EF198502RPB2
P. coeruleum
CBS 141.45 = NCTC 6595
As Citreomyces coeruleus; unknown source
GU981655BT
P. commune
NRRL 35686
Unknown source
EF198602RPB2
P. confertum
CBS 171.87HT = IBT 21515 = IBT 3098 = IBT 5672 =
IMI 296930 = NRRL 13488 = NRRL A-26904
Cheek pouch of Dipodomys spectabilis, Arizona, USA
JN406622RPB2
P. coprophilum
CBS 110760 = IBT 5551
Rabbit dung, Baarn, Netherlands
JN406645RPB2
P. copticola
CBS 127355 = IIBT 30771
Tortilla, USA
JN606599RPB2
P. coralligerum
CBS 123.65NT = ATCC 16968 = FRR 3465 = IMI
099159 = NRRL 3465
Seed of Hordeum vulgare (barley), France
JN406632RPB2
P. corylophilum
CBS 330.79 = IJFM 5147
Authentic strain of P. citreovirens Abe ex. Ramírez; air,
Barcelona, Spain
JN406569RPB2
P. corynephorum
CBS 256.87T = FRR 2663 = IMI 288724
Dried fish, Decapterus sp., Indonesia
JN406595RPB2
P. cremeogriseum
CBS 223.66NT = ATCC 18323 = IJFM 5011 = IMI
197492 = NRRL 3389
Forest soil, Kiev, Ukraine
GU981624BT
P. crocicola
CBS 745.70IsoT = ATCC 18313
Crocus sativus (Saffron), Japan
JN406535RPB2
P. cyaneum
CBS 315.48 = ATCC 10432 = IMI 039744 = NRRL
775
Unrecorded source, France
JN406575RPB2
P. daleae
CBS 211.28T = ATCC 10435 = IFO 6087 = IFO 9072 =
IMI 034910 = MUCL 29234 = NRRL 2025
Soil under conifer, Poland
GU981649BT
P. decaturense
CBS 117509T = IBT 27117 = NRRL 28152
Old resupinate fungus, Ramsey Lake State Park,
Decatur, Illinois, USA
JN606621RPB2
P. decumbens
CBS 230.81NT = IMI 190875 = MUCL 29107 = NRRL
741
Unrecorded source, Miami, Florida, USA
JN406601RPB2
P. dierckxii
CBS 185.81NT = IMI 092216 = MUCL 28665 = NRRL
755
Unknown source, Belgium
JN406619RPB2
P. donkii
CBS 188.72HT = ATCC 48439; = IFO 31746 = IMI
197489 = MUCL 31188
Arable soil, Alaska, USA
JN617718BT
P. echinulonalgiovense
CBS 328.59T = ATCC 18314 = IFO 6229 = IMI 068213
Soil, Japan
GU981631BT
P. egyptiacum
CBS 244.32NT = ATCC 10441 = IBT 14684 = IMI
040580 = NRRL 2090
Soil, Cairo, Egypt
JN406598RPB2
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Table S1. (Continued).
Name
Collection no.
Origin
GenBank accession
no.
P. ehrlichii
CBS 324.48HT = ATCC 10442 = IMI 039737 = NRRL
708
Poland
GU981652BT
P. elleniae
CBS 118135T = IBT 23229
Leaf litter exposed for 6 months, mature forest,
Araracuara, Colombia
GU981663BT
P. fagi
CBS 689.77T = CCM F-696 = IJFM 3049 = IMI 253806
Fallen leaf, on Andosol, alt. 800 m. Fagus sylvatica,
Navarra, Spain
JN406540RPB2
P. fellutanum
IBT 15460NT = NRRL 746 = IMI 39734 = ATCC 10443
Unrecorded source, USA
JN406646RPB2
P. fennelliae
CBS 711.68 = ATCC 22050 = ATCC 52492 = IMI
151747 = MUCL 31322
Flour, Zaire
JN406536RPB2
P. flavigenum
CBS 419.89HT = IBT 21526 = IBT 3091 = IMI 293207
Rhizosphere soil of Brassica campestris var. toria,
Lyngby, Denmark
JN406551RPB2
P. formosanum
CBS 211.92HT = IBT 19748 = IBT 21527
Soil, Hsitou, Taiwan
JN406615RPB2
P. fuscum
CBS 235.60 = ATCC 18483
Type of P. silvaticum; forest soil, USSR
JN406599RPB2
CBS 309.63 = ATCC 18322
Type of P. macedonense; forest soil, former Yugoslavia,
Macedonia
JN406580RPB2
P. gallaicum
CBS 167.81T = ATCC 42232 = IMI 253794 = IBT
22016
Air, Madrid, Spain
JN606609RPB2
P. glabrum
CBS 105.11
Type of P. frequentans, unknown substrate, former
West-Germany, Germany
JN406647RPB2
CBS 229.28 = IMI 092231 = MUCL 29111 = NRRL 751
Type of P. paczoskii; soil, under conifer Poland
JN406602RPB2
NRRL 35684
Boiled cork, Portugal
EF198601RPB2
P. gladioli
CBS 332.48 = ATCC 10448 = IBT 14772 = IMI
034911 = IMI 034911ii = MUCL 29174 = NRRL 939
Gladiolus corm, imported from the Netherlands,
Washington DC, District of Columbia, USA
JN406567RPB2
P. glandicola
CBS 498.75EpiT = IBT 21529 = IMI 154241
Corm, Portugal
JN406546RPB2
P. godlewskii
CBS 215.28T = ATCC 10449 = ATCC 48714 IFO 7724
= IMI 040591 = MUCL 29243 = NRRL 2111
Soil under pine, Bialowieska, Poland
JN606626RPB2
P. gorlenkoanum
CBS 408.69IsoT = IMI 140339
Soil, Syria
JN606601RPB2
P. heteromorphum
CBS 226.89NT
Soil, Hubei Province, Shennongjia, China
JN406605RPB2
P. hetheringtonii
CBS 122392
Soil, Treasure Island, Florida, USA
JN606606RPB2
P. hirayamae
NRRL 143NT = CBS 527.65 = 229.60 = ATCC 18312 =
IMI 078255 = IMI 078255ii = NRRL 143
Milled rice, Thailand
EU021625RPB2
P. hirsutum
CBS 135.41T = ATCC 10429 = IBT 21531 = IMI
040213 = MUCL 15622 = NRRL 2032
Aphid, green fly, Baarn, Netherlands
JN406629RPB2
P. hispanicum
CBS 184.81 = FRR 2061 = IMI 190235 = NRRL 2061
Neotype of P. implicatum sensu Pitt; soil, New Delhi,
India
JN406620RPB2
CBS 691.77T = ATCC 38667 = IJFM 3223 = IMI
253785
Citrus limonium, Madrid, Spain
JN406539RPB2
P. incoloratum
CBS 101753HT = AS 3.4672
Seed of Phaseolus angularis, Beijing, China
JN406651RPB2
P. indicum
CBS 115.63IsoT = ATCC 18324 = FRR 3387 = IMI
166620
Sputum, man, Delhi, India
JN406640RPB2
P. jamesonlandense
CBS 102888T = DAOM 234087 = IBT 21984 = IBT
24411
Soil near Cassiope tetragona and Phyllodoce coerulea,
East Greenland, Jameson Land near Hugin Lake,
Greenland
JN406648RPB2
P. janczewskii
CBS 221.28NT = IMI 191499 = NRRL 919
Soil under Pinus sp., Poland
JN406612RPB2
P. janthinellum
CBS 340.48 = ATCC 10455 = IMI 040238 = NRRL
2016
Soil, Nicaragua
GU981625BT
P. javanicum
CBS 341.48HT = ATCC 9099 = IFO 31735 = IMI
039733 = MUCL 29099 = NRRL 707
Root of Camellia sinensis, Indonesia, Java
GU981657BT
P. jensenii
CBS 216.28T = ATCC 10456 = IMI 068233 = NRRL
3431
Forest soil, Poland
JN406614RPB2
P. jugoslavicum
CBS 192.87NT = IJFM 7785 = IMI 314508
Seed of Helianthus annuus (sunflower), former
Yugoslavia
JN406618RPB2
P. kojigenum
CBS 345.61T = ATCC 18227 = IMI 086562 = MUCL
2457 = NRRL 3442
Roadside soil, Kirkcudbrightshire, Gelston, Scotland
JN406564RPB2
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Table S1. (Continued).
Name
Collection no.
Origin
GenBank accession
no.
P. levitum
CBS 345.48NT = ATCC 10464 = IFO 6101 = IMI
039735 = NRRL 705
Modeling clay, USA
GU981654BT
P. limosum
CBS 339.97
Marine sediment, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan
GU981621BT
P. lineolatum
CBS 188.77 = NHL 2776
Soil from copse, Japan
GU981620BT
P. lividum
CBS 347.48NT = ATCC 10102 = IMI 039736 = NRRL
754
Soil, Scotland
JN406563RPB2
P. luteocoeruleum
CBS 347.51T = ATCC 18237 = IMI 107651 = NRRL
3450
Wakamoto corn and rice cake, Nehira, Osaka Univ. Fac.
Techn., Japan
JN406562RPB2
P. luzoniacum
CBS 622.72IsoT = DSM 2418 = NHL 6128
Soil from pine forest, Luzon Island, Sinipsip near
Baguio, Philippines
JN406543RPB2
P. madriti
CBS 347.61HT = ATCC 18233 = IMI 086563 = MUCL
2456 = MUCL 31193 = NRRL 3452
Garden soil, Madrid, Spain
JN406561RPB2
CBS 170.81 = ATCC 42229 = IJFM 5144 = IMI
253791
Type of P. castellonense; air, Madrid, Spain
JN406623RPB2
CBS 160.81T = ATCC 42241 = IJFM 7093 = IMI
253801
Air, Madrid, Spain
JN406626RPB2
CBS 163.81 = ATCC 42237 = IJFM 7029
Type of P. ovetense; sandy soil, Madrid, Spain
JN406624RPB2
P. manginii
CBS 253.31NT = NRRL 2134 = IMI 191732 = IBT
18224
Soil, unknown source
JN606618RPB2
P. mariaecrucis
CBS 271.83T = IMI 256075
Secale cereale, Spain
GU981630BT
P. melanoconidium
CBS 641.95 = IBT 11406 = IBT 21534
Soil, Denmark
JN406529RPB2
P. melinii
CBS 218.30 = ATCC 10469 = IMI 040216 = MUCL
29235 = NRRL 2041
Forest soil, USA
JN406613RPB2
CBS 280.58 = ATCC 18383 = IMI 071624 = NRRL
2672
Type of P. radulatum; Calluna heathland soil, England
JN406586RPB2
P. meloforme
CBS 445.74HT = ATCC 28049 = IMI 216903 = NHL
6468
Soil, Papua New Guinea
GU981656BT
P. meridianum
CBS 314.67HT = ATCC 18545 = IMI 136209
Grassland soil, Pretoria, South Africa
JN406576RPB2
P. miczynskii
CBS 220.28 = ATCC 10470 = DSM 2437 = IFO 7730
= IMI 040030 = MUCL 29228 = NRRL 1077 = IBT
5491
Soil under conifer, Tatry mountains, Poland
JN606623RPB2
P. molle
CBS 456.72HT = ATCC 24075 = IMI 084589
Soil, Pakistan
JN406550RPB2
P. montanense
CBS 310.63 = ATCC 14941 = IMI 099468 = MUCL
31326 = NRRL 3407
Coniferous forest soil, Ravalli Co., Montana, USA
JN406579RPB2
P. multicolor
NRRL 2060 = IMI 092040 = NRRL 2060
Weathering treated cellophane, Florida, USA
EU427262RPB2
P. murcianum
CBS 161.81 = ATCC 42239 = IJFM 7031 = IMI
253800
Sandy soil, Madrid, Spain
JN406625RPB2
P. nalgiovense
CBS 352.48NT = ATCC 10472 = IBT 21536 = IMI
039804 = MUCL 31194 = NRRL 911
Ellischauer cheese, fomer Czechoslovakia
JN406560RPB2
P. neocrassum
CBS 122428T = NRRL 35639
Wine grapes, Madeira Island, Portugal
JN406633RPB2
P. nodositatum
CBS 330.90T
Soil, Alberta, Canada
JN406568RPB2
P. nodulum
CBS 227.89
Mouldy pork, Hubei Province, Shennongjia, China
JN406603RPB2
P. novae-zeelandiae
CBS 137.41 = ATCC 10473 = IMI 040584ii = NRRL
2128
Apothecium of Sclerotinia, Palmerston North, New
Zealand
JN406628RPB2
P. ochrochloron
CBS 357.48NT = ATCC 10540 = IMI 039806 = NRRL
926
Copper sulphate solution, Washington, USA
GU981672BT
P. ochrosalmoneum
CBS 489.66HT = ATCC 18338 = IMI 116248ii
Cornmeal, South Africa
JN606631RPB2
P. odoratum
CBS 294.62T = ATCC 14769 = CBS 296.62 = IMI
094208ii = NRRL 3007
Peaty soil in Picea-Larix bog, Taylor Co., Wisconsin,
USA
JN406583RPB2
P. oligosporum
CBS 349.51T
Japan
GU981658BT
P. onobense
CBS 174.81T = ATCC 42225 = IJFM 3026
Soil, Navarra, Spain
GU981627BT
P. palmense
CBS 336.79 = ATCC 38669 = IJFM 3840
Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
JN406566RPB2
P. paneum
CBS 465.95 = IBT 13929
Mouldy baker’s yeast, Vangede, Denmark
JN406549RPB2
P. malacaense
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Table S1. (Continued).
Name
Collection no.
Origin
GenBank accession
no.
P. papuaneum
CBS 570.73IsoT = ATCC 28050 = ATCC 48363
Forest soil under Pinus sp. Central Dist., Port Moresby,
Papua New Guinea
JN406545RPB2
P. paraherquei
CBS 430.65AUT = FAT 824
Soil, Japan
GU981628BT
P. parvum
CBS 359.48 = ATCC 10479 = IFO 7732 = IMI
040587 = NRRL 2095 = QM 1878
Soil, Nicaragua
JN406559RPB2
P. pasqualense
CBS 122402 = IBT 29047
Air in bakery, Averhorn, the Netherlands
JN606617RPB2
P. patens
CBS 260.87HT = FRR 2662
Dried fish, Rastrelliger kanagurta, Indonesia
JN406593RPB2
P. paxilli
CBS 360.48 = ATCC 10480 = IMI 040226 = NRRL
2008 = IBT 16202
Ex-type; optical instrument, Barro Colorado Island,
Panama
JN606610RPB2
P. penarojense
CBS 113178T = IBT 23262
Leaf litter exposed 6 months, mature forest, Peña Roja,
Colombia
GU981646BT
P. percisinum
CBS 111235T = AS 3.5891 = IBT 24565
Soil, Qinghai prov., China
JN406644RPB2
P. philippinense
CBS 623.72
Twig peduncle and fruit, Luzon Island, Sinipsip near
Baguio, Philippines
JN406542RPB2
P. phoeniceum
CBS 249.32NT = ATCC 10481 = IJFM 5122 = IMI
040585 = NRRL 2070
Sooty mould on Phoenix sp. (palm)
JN406597RPB2
P. pimiteoiense
CBS 102479T = NRRL 25542
Kidney epithelial cell culture flask, Peoria, Illinois, USA
JN406650RPB2
P. piscarium
CBS 362.48T = ATCC 10482 = IMI 040032 = NRRL
1075
Cod-liver oil emulsion, Norway
GU981668BT
P. polonicum
CBS 222.28T = IBT 12821 = IMI 291194 = MUCL
29204 = NRRL 995
Soil, Puszcza Bialowieska Forest, Poland
JN406609RPB2
P. psychrosexualis
CBS 128036HT
Wooden crate in cold-store of apples, Netherlands
JN406537RPB2
P. pullum
CBS 331.48 = ATCC 10447 = IFO 6097 = IMI 039747
= NRRL 721
Soil, Tennessee, USA
JN617719BT
P. pulvillorum
CBS 280.39NT = IFO 7763 = NRRL 2026
Acidic soil, UK
GU981670BT
P. quebecense
CBS 101623 = IBT 29050
Air in sawmill, Quebec, Canada
JN606622RPB2
P. quercetorum
CBS 417.69IsoT = ATCC 48727 = IMI 140342 = MUCL
31203
Soil, Syria
JN406552RPB2
P. raciborskii
CBS 224.28T = ATCC 10488 = IMI 040568 = MUCL
29246 = NRRL 2150
Soil, under conifer Poznan area, “Dluga Goslina”,
Poland
JN406607RPB2
P. raistrickii
CBS 261.33T = ATCC 10490 = IMI 040221 = NRRL
1044 = NRRL 2039
Cotton yarn, UK
JN406592RPB2
P. ramusculum
NRRL 2279
Unknown source
EU427260RPB2
P. raperi
CBS 281.58NT = ATCC 22355 = IFO 8179 = IMI
071625 = NRRL 2674
Soil, Bedford, UK
GU981622BT
P. raphiae
CBS 126234T = IBT 22407
Soil under Raphia (?) palm in primary forest, Las
Alturas, elev. 1530 m, Costa Rica
JN606619RPB2
P. reticulisporum
CBS 513.74 = DSM 2207 = IFO 9712
Type of P. arvense and E. arvense; soil, Japan
GU981666BT
CBS 121.68AUT = ATCC 18565 = IMI 136699 = NHL
6102 = NRRL 3446
Soil, Japan
GU981665BT
P. ribeum
CBS 127809T = IBT 16537 = IBT 24431 = DAOM
234091
Red currant, Wyoming, USA
JN406631RPB2
P. rolfsii
CBS 368.48T = ATCC 10491 = IFO 7735 = IMI 040029
= MUCL 29229 = NRRL 1078
Pineapple, Florida, USA
GU981667BT
P. roqueforti
CBS 221.30NT = ATCC 10110 = ATCC 1129 = IBT
6754 = IMI 024313 = NRRL 849
French Roquefort cheese, USA
JN406611RPB2
P. roseopurpureum
CBS 266.29NT = ATCC 10492 = IMI 040573 = MUCL
28654 = MUCL 29237 = NRRL 2064 = NRRL 2064A
Unrecorded source
JN606613RPB2
P. rubefaciens
CBS 145.83HT
Sandy soil under pine tree, Valladolid, Spain
JN406627RPB2
P. rubens
CBS 205.57 = ATCC 8537 = ATCC 9478 = IBT 23019
= IMI 015378 = NRRL 1209 = NRRL 824
Contaminant of bacterial culture (Fleming’s strain), UK
JN406616RPB2
P. rubidurum
CBS 609.73HT = ATCC 28051 = ATCC 48238 = IMI
228551
Soil, East Sepik Dist., Wewak, Papua New Guinea
JN406544RPB2
P. sabulosum
CBS 261.87HT = FRR 2743
Spoiled pasteurized fruit juice, Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia
JN406591RPB2
NT
T
AUT
= DSM 2420 = NHL 6130
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Table S1. (Continued).
Name
Collection no.
Origin
GenBank accession
no.
P. sajarovii
CBS 277.83NT = CECT 2751 = IMI 259992
Secale cereale (rye) Zamora, Castrocontrigo, Spain
JN406588RPB2
P. sanguifluum
CBS 148.83 = CECT 2753
Sandy soil under pine tree, Valladolid, Spain
JN606614RPB2
CBS 685.85 = IJFM 19078 = IBT 4904 = IBT 10578 =
IBT 10579
Ex-type of P. lacussarmientei, sandy soil, National Park
of Torres del Paine, near Lake Sarmiento, Tierra del
Fuego, Chile
JN606615RPB2
P. scabrosum
CBS 683.89HT = FRR 2950 = IBT 3736 = IMI 285533
Zea mays, Denmark
JN406541RPB2
P. sclerotigenum
CBS 101033T = ATCC 18488 = CBS 343.59 = IBT
14346 = IBT 21544 = IMI 68616 = NRRL 3461
Rotting tuber, Dioscorea batatas, Myogo Pref., Tamba
Prov., Sasayama, Japan
JN406652RPB2
P. sclerotiorum
CBS 287.36NT = ATCC 10494 = IMI 040569 = NRRL
2074
Air, Buitenzorg, Java, Indonesia
JN406585RPB2
P. simplicissimum
CBS 372.48NT = ATCC 10495 = IFO 5762 = IMI
039816
Flannel bag, South Africa
GU981632BT
P. sinaicum
CBS 279.82HT = NHL 2894
Secale cereale (rye) Suez Canal, 30 km N of Port Said,
Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
JN406587RPB2
P. sizovae
CBS 413.69NT = IMI 140344
Soil, Syria
JN606603RPB2
P. skrjabinii
CBS 439.75NT = IMI 196528
Soil, Russia (far East)
GU981626BT
P. smithii
CBS 276.83 = CECT 2744 = IMI 259693
Secale cereale (rye), Zamora, Torneros, Spain
JN406589RPB2
P. soppii
CBS 226.28NT = ATCC 10496 = IMI 040217 = MUCL
29233 = NRRL 2023
Soil, Puszcza Bialowieska Forest, square “652”, Poland
JN406606RPB2
P. spinulosum
CBS 374.48NT = ATCC 10498 = IMI 024316 = MUCL
13910 = MUCL 13911 = NRRL 1750
Culture contaminant, Hannover, Germany
JN406558RPB2
P. steckii
CBS 260.55NT = ATCC 10499 = DSM 1252 = IMI
040583 = NRRL 2140
Cotton fabric treated with copper naphthenate; Panama
JN606602RPB2
P. stolkiae
CBS 315.67HT = IMI 136210 = ATCC 18546
Peaty forest soil, Eastern Transvaal, South-Africa
JN617717BT
P. striatisporum
CBS 705.68HT = ATCC 22052 = IMI 151749 = MUCL
31202
Leaf litter, Acacia karroo (Sweet Thorn), Potchefstroom,
South Africa
JN406538RPB2
P. subarcticum
CBS 111719HT = NRRL 31108
Petroleum contaminated soil, near Norman Wells,
Northwest-Territories, Canada
JN617716BT
P. subericola
CBS 125096T
Non-boiled cork, Coruche, Portugal
JN406621RPB2
P. sublateritium
CBS 267.29NT = ATCC 10502 = IMI 040594 = MUCL
28655 = NRRL 2071
Unrecorded source, Belgium
JN406590RPB2
P. sumatrense
NRRL 6181
Unknown source
EF198540RPB2
NRRL 779 = CBS 281.36 = NRRL 779 = ATCC 48669
= IBT 29658 = IBT 4978
Soil, Toba Heath, Sumatra, Indonesia
EF198541RPB2
CBS 416.69 = IMI 140336 = IBT 29648
Isotype of P. baradicum; soil under cornel, Damascus,
Syria
JN606612RPB2
P. svalbardense
CBS 122416T = IBT 23856 = EX-F 1307
Glacial ice, Svalbard, Greenland
GU981669BT
P. swiecickii
CBS 119391 = FRR 918 = IBT 27865 = IMI 191500
= NRRL 918
Pine forest soil, Poland
JN406635RPB2
P. terrenum
CBS 313.67HT = ATCC 18547 = IMI 136208
Soil in subtropical forest, Eastern Transvaal, South
Africa
JN406577RPB2
P. terrigenum
CBS 127354T = IBT 30769
Soil, Hawaii, USA
JN606600RPB2
P. toxicarium
NRRL 31271
Unknown source
EF198486RPB2
NRRL 6172
Unknown source
EF198499RPB2
NT
T
T
P. tropicoides
CBS 122410
Soil rainforest, near Hua-Hin, Thailand
JN606608RPB2
P. tropicum
CBS 112584T = IBT 24580
Soil between Coffea arabica, Karnataka, India
JN606607RPB2
P. turbatum
CBS 134.41 = ATCC 10415 = IMI 040590 = NRRL
2086
Neotype of P. baarnense; soil , Baarn, Netherlands
JN406630RPB2
CBS 339.61 = NRRL 2087
Contaminant of P. euglaucum culture, see also Stolk
Scott (1967); leaf litter of Acacia mollissima, Natal,
South Africa
JN406565RPB2
CBS 383.48NT = ATCC 9782 = CBS 237.60 = IMI
039738 = MUCL 29115 = NRRL 757 = NRRL 758
Rotten twig Taxus baccata
JN406556RPB2
CBS 126216T = DTO 97A3 = IBT 23203
Leaf litter exposed for 6 months, mature forest,
Araracuara, Colombia
GU981647BT
P. vanderhammenii
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Table S1. (Continued).
Name
Collection no.
Origin
GenBank accession
no.
P. vasconiae
CBS 339.79T = CBS 175.81, IJFM 3008
Acid washed brown soil, Spain
GU981653BT
P. vinaceum
CBS 389.48NT = ATCC 10514 = IMI 029189 = NRRL
739
Soil, Utah, USA
JN406555RPB2
P. virgatum
CBS 114838IsoT = BBA 65745
Soil near soy bean plant North of Noumea, Port
Laguerre, New Caledonia
JN406641RPB2
P. waksmanii
CBS 230.28NT = ATCC 10516 = IFO 7737 = IMI
039746 = IMI 039746i = MUCL 29120 = NRRL 777 =
IBT 5003 = IBT 6994
Woodland soil, Puszcza Bialowieska Forest, Poland
JN606627RPB2
P. wellingtonense
CBS 130375 = IBT 23557
Soil, New Zealand
JN606616RPB2
P. westlingii
CBS 231.28 = IMI 092272 = IBT 15088
Soil under conifer, Denga Goolina, Poznan, Poland
JN606625RPB2
P. wotroi
CBS 118171T = IBT 23253
Leaf litter exposed for 6 months, mature forest,
Araracuara, Colombia
GU981637BT
P. yarmokense
CBS 410.69IsoT = FRR 520 = IMI 140346
Soil, Syria
JN406553RPB2
P. zonatum
CBS 992.72HT = ATCC 24353
Coastal marsh soil, USA, North Carolina
GU981651BT
Penicillium sp.
CBS 116986 = IBT 3265
Soil, Wales
JN406638RPB2
CBS 117181 = IBT 6005 = IMI 304286
Barley, Denmark
JN406637RPB2
CBS 117192 = IBT 22220 = IBT 24432
Chestnut, France
JN406636RPB2
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