Trichocomaceae is a family of the order Eurotiales

Eurotiales

The Eurotiales are an order of sac fungi, also known as the green and blue molds. The order contains 3 families, 49 genera, and 928 species. It was circumscribed in 1980....

. Taxa are saprobes with aggressive colonization strategies, adaptable to extreme environmental conditions. Family members are cosmopolitan in distribution, ubiquitous in soil and very common associates of decaying plant and food material. The family contains some of the most familiar fungi, such as Penicillium

Penicillium

Penicillium is a genus of ascomycetous fungi of major importance in the natural environment as well as food and drug production. Members of the genus produce penicillin, a molecule that is used as an antibiotic, which kills or stops the growth of certain kinds of bacteria inside the body...

and Aspergillus

Aspergillus

Aspergillus is a genus consisting of several hundred mold species found in various climates worldwide. Aspergillus was first catalogued in 1729 by the Italian priest and biologist Pier Antonio Micheli...

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Genera

• Aspergillus
  Aspergillus
  Aspergillus is a genus consisting of several hundred mold species found in various climates worldwide. Aspergillus was first catalogued in 1729 by the Italian priest and biologist Pier Antonio Micheli...
  
  
• Byssochlamys
  Byssochlamys
  Byssochlamys is a genus of fungus in the Trichocomaceae family. First described by Swedish botanist Richard Westling in 1909, the widespread genus contains four species. Species in the genus are associated with food spoilage, especially heat-processed acid foods....
  
  
• Chaetosartorya
• Chaetotheca
• Chromocleista
• Cristaspora
• Dichotomomyces
• Edyuillia
• Emericella
• Erythrogymnotheca
• Eupenicillium
• Eurotium
• Fennellia
• Hemicarpenteles
• Neocarpenteles
• Neosartorya
• Paecilomyces
  Paecilomyces
  Paecilomyces is a genus of nematophagous fungus which kills harmful nematodes by pathogenesis, causing disease in the nematodes. Therefore the fungus can be used as a bio-nematicide to control nematodes by applying it to soil.-Species:...
  
  
• Penicilliopsis
• Penicillium
  Penicillium
  Penicillium is a genus of ascomycetous fungi of major importance in the natural environment as well as food and drug production. Members of the genus produce penicillin, a molecule that is used as an antibiotic, which kills or stops the growth of certain kinds of bacteria inside the body...
  
  
• Petromyces
• Sagenoma
• Talaromyces
• Thermoascus
• Trichocoma
  Trichocoma
  Trichocoma is a genus of fungus in the Trichocomaceae family. The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Trichocoma paradoxa, widespread in tropical regions. Commonly known as the "shaving brush fungus", it is about 2 cm tall, 0.5 cm wide, and not edible. Mostly found during...
  
  
• Warcupiella
• mitosporic Trichocomaceae