Crystalline forms of the phosphorus (see phase diagram in [Clark10]):
| 3D | bcc | >258GPa | metal | |
| sc | >10GPa | |||
| layered (black-P)  | 
    A7 | >5GPa | semimetal | |
| black-P | A17 | stable phase | semiconductor | |
| polymeric (red-P)  | 
    monoclinic-P | mP84 | Hittorf's-P | widegap semiconductor  | 
  
| amorphous | ||||
| molecular (white-P)  | 
    α-P4 | cI232* | stable phase | insulator | 
| β-P4 | aP24 | <196K | ||
| γ-P4 | <150K | 
* I-43m α-Mn structure, a=18.51, 58 molecules per unit cell