Godroniopsis

Godroniopsis is a genus of fungi in the family Helotiaceae. The genus contains two species.

Godroniopsis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Helotiales
Family: Helotiaceae
Genus: Godroniopsis
Diehl & E.K. Cash
Type species
Godroniopsis quernea
(Schwein.) Diehl & E.K. Cash

The genus name of Godroniopsis is in honour of Dominique Alexandre Godron (1807–1880), who was a French physician, botanist, geologist and speleologist.

The genus was circumscribed by William Webster Diehl and Edith Katherine Cash in Mycologia Vol.21 on page 243 in 1929.

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