Penicillium roqueforti

Caseus Roquefort effectum Penicillii roqueforti monstrans

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Fungi — Ascomycota

Classis : Eurotiomycetes 
Ordo : Eurotiales 
Familia : Trichocomaceae 
Genus : Penicillium 
Species : P. roqueforti 
Thom 1906

Penicillium roqueforti   

Penicillium roqueforti (binomen a Carolo Thom anno 1906 constitutum) est species fungorum e qua "venae" fiunt caseorum glaucorum fere omnium, inter quos Roquefortensis e quo nomen speciale ducitur. Recentius ad caseum Congorciolae conficiendum adhibetur, cui olim Penicillium glaucum intravit.

• Penicillium camemberti apud Species Fungorum
• USDA ARS Fungal Database

• Frank Maixner et al., "Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period" in Current Biology (13 Octobris 2021)
• Charles Thom, "Cultural studies of species of Penicillium" in Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau Animal Industry vol. 82 (1906) p. 50.

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