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Penicillium

genus of fungi
Taxon taxon Q843136
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Summary

Penicillium is a taxon[1]. Penicillium ranks in the top 0.7% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,001 views/month, #1,369 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Aspergillaceae[4]
  • Taxon name: Penicillium[5]
  • Commons category: Penicillium[6]
  • Taxonomic type: Penicillium crustaceum[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Penicillium[8]
  • Commons gallery: Penicillium[9]
  • Described by source: Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[10], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11[11]
  • This taxon is source of: penicillin[12]
  • Taxon common name: 青霉属[13]
  • Taxon author citation: Link[14]

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Identifiers

Penicillium's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 194449[15]. Penicillium's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 5073[16]. Penicillium's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 16374[17]. Penicillium's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 7635114[18].

Why It Matters

Penicillium has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Penicillium is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . The 2024 Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . MycoBank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [16] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [17] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [13] ↑ . Relationship between culturable filamentous fungal diversity and environmental factors in Nam Co Lake. wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . Biota of New Zealand. id.biodiversity.org.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · 高晶 · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'ceb', 'ckb', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo',
    Sitelink count → 56
    Parent taxon → Aspergillaceae
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Parent taxon: Trichocomaceae"
  2. 9w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i105450
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 13100713-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    This taxon is source of → penicillin
    Taxonomic type → Penicillium crustaceum
    Parent taxon → Aspergillaceae
    Instance of → taxon
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007533961005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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