{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Kuehniella | authority = G.F. Orr | type_species = ''Kuehniella racovitzae'' | type_species_authority = (Lagarde) G.F. Orr | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = }}

'''''Kuehniella''''' is a genus of fungi within the Onygenaceae family.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota &ndash; 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>

The genus name of ''Kuehniella'' is in honour of Harold Hermann Kuehn n (1927 - 1990), who was an American botanist 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 circumscribed by G.F. Orr in Mycotaxon vol.4 on page 172 in 1976.

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==External links== *''[http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/genusrecord.asp?RecordID=2596 Kuehniella]'' at Index Fungorum

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Category:Eurotiomycetes genera Category:Onygenales

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