Kirschsteiniothelia

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = 2013-10-04 Kirschsteiniothelia aethiops 545486.jpg | image_caption = ''Kirschsteiniothelia aethiops'' on dead wood of ''[[Fagus sylvatica]]'' | taxon = Kirschsteiniothelia | authority = [[D.Hawksw.]] (1985) | type_species = ''Kirschsteiniothelia aethiops'' | type_species_authority = ([[Miles Joseph Berkeley|Berk.]] & [[M.A.Curtis]]) D.Hawksw. (1985) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = }}

'''''Kirschsteiniothelia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[fungus|fungi]] in the class [[Dothideomycetes]]. The relationship of this [[taxon]] to other taxa within the class is unknown (''[[incertae sedis]]'').<ref name="urlMyconet">{{cite web|url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |title=Myconet |access-date=2009-04-26 |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 name of ''Kirschsteiniothelia'' is in honour of [[Wilhelm Kirschstein]] (1863 - 1946), who was a German schoolteacher and [[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 [[circumscription (taxonomy)|circumscribed]] by [[David Leslie Hawksworth]] in [[Bot. J. Linn. Soc.]] vol.91 on page 182 in 1985.

==Species== *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia abietina]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia acerina]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia aethiops]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia atkinsonii]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia dolioloides]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia elaterascus]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia maritima]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia phileura]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia populi]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia proteae]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia recessa]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia reticulata]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia smilacis]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia striatispora]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia thujina]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia umbrinoidea]]'' *''[[Kirschsteiniothelia xera]]''

==See also== * [[List of Dothideomycetes genera incertae sedis|List of Dothideomycetes genera ''incertae sedis'']]

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Enigmatic Dothideomycetes taxa]] [[Category:Dothideomycetes genera]] [[Category:Taxa named by David Leslie Hawksworth]]