{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Godronia | authority = Moug. & Lév. | type_species = ''Godronia muehlenbeckii'' | type_species_authority = Moug. & Lév. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivisions = }}

'''''Godronia''''' is a genus of fungi in the family Helotiaceae.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota &ndash; 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1&ndash;58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archive-date=2009-03-18 }}</ref> The genus contains 27 species.<ref name=Dictionary10th>{{cite book |vauthors=Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryfungit00kirk |url-access=limited |edition=10th |publisher=CABI |location=Wallingford |year=2008|isbn=0-85199-826-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryfungit00kirk/page/n298 288]}}</ref>

The genus name of ''Godronia'' is in honour of Dominique Alexandre Godron (1807-1880), who was a French physician, botanist, geologist and speleologist.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>

The genus was circumscribed by Jean Baptiste Mougeot and Joseph Henri Léveillé in Consid. Gen. Veg. Vosges on page 355 in 1846.

==Species== * ''Godronia callunigena'' * ''Godronia cassandrae'' * ''Godronia fuliginosa'' * ''Godronia ribis'' * ''Godronia uberiformis'' * ''Godronia urceolus''

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Category:Helotiaceae Category:Taxa named by Joseph-Henri Léveillé

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