''Muellerites'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...
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
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to other taxa within the class is unknown (''
incertae sedis
' () or ''problematica'' is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertainty ...
''). A
monotypic
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genus, it contains the single species ''Muellerites juniperi''.
The genus name of ''Muellerites'' is in honour of
Emil Müller Emil Muller or Emil Müller may refer to:
* Emil Müller (mathematician) (1861–1927), Austrian mathematician
* Emil Müller (German officer), an officer in the World War I Imperial German Army charged with war crimes at the Leipzig War Crimes Tri ...
(1920–2008), who was a Swiss
mycologist
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.
The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by
Lennart Holm
Lennart or Lennarth is a Germanic variant of the name Leonard, most common in Scandinavia and German-speaking countries as a surname or masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
*Camilla Lennarth (born 1988), Swedish go ...
in Svensk Bot. Tidskr. vol.62 on page 231 in 1968.
See also
*
List of Dothideomycetes genera ''incertae sedis''
References
External links
Index Fungorum
Monotypic Dothideomycetes genera
Enigmatic Dothideomycetes taxa
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