Penicillium sanguifluum

Penicillium sanguifluum is a species of fungus in the genus Penicillium. It was first described scientifically in 1912 by Norwegian mycologist Olav Johan Sopp, who called it Citromyces sanguifluus.^[1] Philibert Biourge transferred it to the genus Penicillium in 1923.^[2] P. sanguifluum is classified in the section Citrina of Penicillium.^[3]

Penicillium sanguifluum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Eurotiales
Family:	Aspergillaceae
Genus:	Penicillium
Species:	P. sanguifluum
Binomial name
Penicillium sanguifluum (Sopp) Biourge (1923)
Synonyms
Citromyces sanguifluus Sopp (1912)

References

1. Sopp OJ. (1912). "Monographie der Pilzgruppe Penicillium mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der in Norwegen gefundenen Arten". Skrifter udgivne af Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania. Mathematisk-Naturvidenskabelig Klasse (in German). 11: 115.
2. Biourge P. (1923). "Les moissisures du groupe Penicillium Link". La Cellule (in French). 33: 105.
3. Visagie CM, Seifert KA, Houbraken J, Samson RA, Jacobs K (2014). "Diversity of Penicillium section Citrina within the fynbos biome of South Africa, including a new species from a Protea repens infructescence". Mycologia. 106 (3): 537–552. doi:10.3852/13-256. PMID 24871606.