Korfia

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Korfia | authority = J. Reid & Cain | type_species = '''''Korfia tsugae''''' | type_species_authority = (E.K. Cash & R.W. Davidson) J. Reid & Cain }} '''''Korfia''''' is a genus of fungi in the family Hemiphacidiaceae.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |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> This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species '''''Korfia tsugae'''''.<ref name="gbif">{{cite web |title=''Korfia'' J.Reid & Cain |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2580548 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=15 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

The genus name of ''Korfia'' is in honour of Richard Paul "Dick" Korf (1925–2016), who was an American mycologist and founding co-editor of the journal ''Mycotaxon''.<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 James Reid and Roy Franklin Cain in Mycologia vol.55 on page 783 in 1963.

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== External links ==

* ''[http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/genusrecord.asp?RecordID=2583 Korfia]'' at Index Fungorum

Category:Helotiales genera Category:Monotypic Ascomycota genera