{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Britzelmayria multipedata.jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = ''Britzelmayria multipedata'' growing in Graz, Austria | taxon = Britzelmayria | authority = D. Wächt & A. Melzer (2020) | type_species = ''Britzelmayria supernula'' | type_species_authority = (Britzelm.) D. Wächt & A. Melzer (2020) }}

'''''Britzelmayria''''' is a genus of fungi in the family Psathyrellaceae.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Britzelmayria D. Wächt. & A. Melzer, Mycol. Progr. 19(11): 1213 (2020) |url=http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=831472 |access-date=14 July 2022 |website=www.indexfungorum.org}}</ref>

== Taxonomy == The ''Britzelmayria'' genus was created in 2020 by the German mycologists Dieter Wächter & Andreas Melzer when the ''Psathyrellaceae'' family was subdivided based on phylogenetic analysis.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Wächter |first1=Dieter |last2=Melzer |first2=Andreas |date=1 November 2020 |title=Proposal for a subdivision of the family Psathyrellaceae based on a taxon-rich phylogenetic analysis with iterative multigene guide tree |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-020-01606-3 |journal=Mycological Progress |language=en |volume=19 |issue=11 |pages=1151–1265 |doi=10.1007/s11557-020-01606-3 |bibcode=2020MycPr..19.1151W |s2cid=228976812 |issn=1861-8952|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Two members of the ''Psathyrella'' genus were reclassified as ''Britzelmayria''.

The type species, ''Britzelmayria supernula'' was previously classified as ''Psathyrella supernula'''.'''''

== Etymology == The genus is named after the German mycologist Max Britzelmayr,<ref name=":0" /> who originally classified the type species as ''Agaricus supernulus'' in 1883.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Species Fungorum – Agaricus supernulus Britzelm., Ber. naturhist. Augsburg 27: 176 (1883) |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=119539 |access-date=14 July 2022 |website=www.speciesfungorum.org}}</ref>

== Species == {{Columns-list|* ''Britzelmayria multipedata'' * ''Britzelmayria supernula''}} <ref>{{Cite web |title=Species Fungorum – Britzelmayria |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/names/names.asp?strGenus=Britzelmayria&GSD=Yes |access-date=14 July 2022 |website=www.speciesfungorum.org}}</ref>

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Category:Agaricales genera Category:Britzelmayria