Eoaleurina

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Eoaleurina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Pyronemataceae
Genus: Eoaleurina
Korf & W.Y.Zhuang (1986)
Type species
Eoaleurina foliicola
(Henn.) Korf & W.Y.Zhuang (1986)
Synonyms
  • Humaria foliicolaHenn. (1902)
  • Jafneadelphus foliicolus(Henn.) Spooner (1981)

Eoaleurina is a fungal genus in the family Pyronemataceae. It is monotypic, containing the single species Eoaleurina foliicola, first described as Humaria foliicola by Paul Christoph Hennings in 1902. [1] The genus was circumscribed by mycologists Richard Korf and Wenying Zhuang in 1986. [2]

References

  1. Hennings P. (1902). "Fungi blumenaeviensis. II. a cl. Alfr. Möller lecti". Hedwigia (in Latin). 41: 1–33 (see p. 29).
  2. Zhuang W-Y, Korf RP (1986). "A monograph of the genus Aleurina Massee (=Jafneadelphus Rifai)". Mycotaxon. 26: 361–400 (see p. 381).