''Rostafinskia'' is a genus of fungi in the

Ascomycota 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 def ...

phylum. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the phylum is unknown ('' incertae sedis''), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any class, order, or family. The genus name of ''Rostafinskia'' is in honour of Józef Tomasz Rostafínsky (1850–1928), who was a Polish

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

(Algology and Mycology), and Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Garden at

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

in Kraków between 1873 - 1912. Note: ''Rostafinskia elegans'' Racib. 1884Racib., Rozpr. Spraw. Posiedzeń Wydz. Mat.-Przyr. Akad. Umiejetn. 12: 78 (1884) is a name brought to synonymy to ''

Collaria elegans ''Collaria elegans'' is a species of slime mold in the family Lamprodermataceae Lamprodermataceae is a family of slime molds in the order Physarales Physarales is an order of Amoebozoa in the class Myxomycetes. It contains three families ...

'' (Racib.) Dhillon & Nann.-Bremek. ex Ing, 1982.

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Index Fungorum
Enigmatic Ascomycota taxa Ascomycota genera Taxa described in 1880 Taxa named by Carlo Luigi Spegazzini {{Ascomycota-stub

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