''Veronaea'' is a genus of ascomycete fungi, classified in the family

Herpotrichiellaceae Herpotrichiellaceae is a family of ascomycetous fungi within the order Chaetothyriales and within the class Eurotiomycetes. It contains 16 genera and about 270 species. The type genus of the family, ''Herpotrichiella'', is now synonymous with '' ...

. The genus was defined by R. Ciferri and A. Montemartini in 1958. Species of ''Veronaea'' grow relatively well in culture, producing sparingly branched, brownish

conidiophore A conidium ( ; ), sometimes termed an asexual chlamydospore or chlamydoconidium (), is an Asexual reproduction, asexual, non-motility, motile spore of a fungus. The word ''conidium'' comes from the Ancient Greek word for dust, ('). They are al ...

s with geniculate, sympodial conidiogenous cells with flat, unthickened scars, each producing single 1–septate conidia. The cosmopolitan ''V. botryosa'' has 2(–4) celled conidia and although found in soil and other organic matter, it frequently causes skin infections in immunocompromized humans.

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Ascomycota enigmatic taxa Eurotiomycetes genera {{Ascomycota-stub