''Colensoniella'' is a
genus of
fungi in the class
Dothideomycetes
Dothideomycetes is the largest and most diverse class of ascomycete fungi. It comprises 11 orders 90 families, 1300 genera and over 19,000 known species. Traditionally, most of its members were included in the loculoascomycetes, which is not par ...
. The relationship of this
taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown (''
incertae sedis''). A
monotypic genus, it contains the single species ''Colensoniella torulispora''.
The genus name of ''Colensoniella'' is in honour of A. Colenso, the plant collector of the plant in New Zealand.
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 polyg ...
by
Josef Hafellner in Beih. Nova Hedwigia Vol.62 on page 160 in 1979.
See also
*
List of Dothideomycetes genera ''incertae sedis''
References
External links
Index Fungorum
Enigmatic Dothideomycetes taxa
Monotypic Dothideomycetes genera
Taxa named by Josef Hafellner
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