''Briosia'' is a genus of
ascomycete
Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The defi ...
fungi. The known members of the genus are plant pathogens.
The genus name of ''Briosia'' is in honour of Giovanni Briosi (1846-1919), an Italian engineer and botanist from the
University of Pavia.
The genus was
circumscribed
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius.
Not every po ...
by
Fridiano Cavara in Atti Ist. Bot. Univ. Pavia ser.2, Vol.1 on page 321 in 1888.
See also
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List of Ascomycota genera incertae sedis
This is a list of genus, genera in the fungi, fungal division Ascomycota with uncertain Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic placement (''incertae sedis''). These genera have not yet been assigned to any class (biology), class, order (biology), order, or ...
References
Ascomycota genera
Taxa described in 1888
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