Valetoniella | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Sordariomycetes |
Order: | Hypocreales |
Family: | Niessliaceae |
Genus: | Valetoniella Höhn. |
Type species | |
Valetoniella crucipila Höhn. |
Valetoniella is a genus of fungi within the Niessliaceae family. [1] The genus contains three species. [2]
The genus was circumscribed by Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel in Sitzungsber. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. Abt. vol.1, 118: 1499 in 1909.
The genus name of Valetoniella is in honour of Theodoric Valeton (1855-1929), who was a Dutch botanist who went to Indonesia. [3]
As accepted by Species Fungorum; [4]