# Karsteniomyces

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{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Karsteniomyces
| authority = [D.Hawksw.](/source/D.Hawksw.) (1980)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
''[K. llimonae](/source/Karsteniomyces_llimonae)''<br />
''[K. peltigerae](/source/Karsteniomyces_peltigerae)''<br />
''[K. tuberculosus](/source/Karsteniomyces_tuberculosus)''
| subdivision_ref = <ref name="GBIF">{{GBIF |id=3478100 |taxon=Karsteniomyces |accessdate=9 April 2021}}</ref>
}}

'''''Karsteniomyces''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [lichenicolous fungi](/source/lichenicolous_fungi) of unknown [familial](/source/Family_(taxonomy)), [ordinal](/source/order_(biology)), and [class](/source/class_(biology)) placement in the [Ascomycota](/source/Ascomycota).<ref name="GBIF"/> The genus was [circumscribed](/source/circumscription_(taxonomy)) by [David Leslie Hawksworth](/source/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](/source/Petter_Adolf_Karsten) (1834–1917), who was a Finnish born [mycologist](/source/mycology).<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](/source/circumscription_(taxonomy)) by [David Leslie Hawksworth](/source/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](/source/Karsteniomyces_llimonae)'' {{small|Boqueras & Diederich (1993)}}<ref name="Boqueras & Diederich 1993"/>
*''[Karsteniomyces peltigerae](/source/Karsteniomyces_peltigerae)'' {{small|(P.Karst.) D.Hawksw. (1980)}}
*''[Karsteniomyces tuberculosus](/source/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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