{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Karsteniomyces | authority = D.Hawksw. (1980) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''K. llimonae''<br /> ''K. peltigerae''<br /> ''K. tuberculosus'' | subdivision_ref = <ref name="GBIF">{{GBIF |id=3478100 |taxon=Karsteniomyces |accessdate=9 April 2021}}</ref> }}
'''''Karsteniomyces''''' is a genus of lichenicolous fungi of unknown familial, ordinal, and class placement in the Ascomycota.<ref name="GBIF"/> The genus was circumscribed by David Leslie Hawksworth in 1980.<ref name="Hawksworth 1980"/> The species of this genus are found in Europe.<ref name="GBIF" />
The genus name of ''Karsteniomyces'' is in honour of Petter Adolf Karsten (1834–1917), who was a Finnish born mycologist.<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 David Leslie Hawksworth in Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) vol.9 (Issue 1) on page 22 in 1981.
Species known;.<ref name="GBIF" /> *''Karsteniomyces llimonae'' {{small|Boqueras & Diederich (1993)}}<ref name="Boqueras & Diederich 1993"/> *''Karsteniomyces peltigerae'' {{small|(P.Karst.) D.Hawksw. (1980)}} *''Karsteniomyces tuberculosus'' {{small|Alstrup & D.Hawksw. (1990)}}<ref name="Alstrup & Hawksworth 1990"/> – Greenland
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Alstrup & Hawksworth 1990">{{cite journal |last1=Alstrup |first1=V. |last2=Hawksworth |first2=D.L. |year=1990 |title=The lichenicolous fungi of Greenland |journal=Meddelelser om Grønland Biosciences |volume=31 |pages=1–90}}</ref>
<ref name="Boqueras & Diederich 1993">{{cite journal |last1=Boqueras |first1=M. |last2=Diederich |first2=P. |year=1993 |title=New or interesting lichenicolous fungi. 3. ''Karsteniomyces llimonae'' sp. nov. and ''Sclerococcum serusiauxii'' sp. nov. (Deuteromycotina) |journal=Mycotaxon |volume=47 |pages=425–431}}</ref>
<ref name="Hawksworth 1980">{{cite journal |last1=Hawksworth |first1=D.L. |year=1980 |title=Notes on some fungi occurring on ''Peltigera'', with a key to accepted species |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=74 |issue=2 |pages=363–386}}</ref>
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Category:Enigmatic Ascomycota taxa Category:Taxa described in 1980 Category:Taxa named by David Leslie Hawksworth Category:Ascomycota genera
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