{{Short description|Genus of fungi}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Uleothyrium | authority = Petr. | type_species = ''Uleothyrium amazonicum'' | type_species_authority = Petr. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = }} '''''Uleothyrium''''' is a genus of fungi in the Asterinaceae family. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown (''incertae sedis''), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any order.<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 }}</ref>
The genus was circumscribed by Franz Petrak in Ann. Mycol. vol.14 (1-2) on pages 65, 96 in 1916 and also in Ann. Mycol. vol.27 (5-6) on page 388 in 1929.
The genus name of ''Uleothyrium'' is in honour of Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule (1854–1915), who was a German botanist and plant collector.<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>
As accepted by Species Fungorum;<ref name="Fungorum">{{cite web |title=Echidnodes - Search Page |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp?strGenus=Echidnodes |website=www.speciesfungorum.org |publisher=Species Fungorum |access-date=6 November 2022}}</ref> * ''Uleothyrium amazonicum'' {{Au|Petr. (1929)}} * ''Uleothyrium leptocarpum'' {{Au|Syd. (1932)}}
Former species; ''Uleothyrium clavisporum'' {{Au|(Rehm) Syd. (1934)}} = ''Prillieuxina clavispora'', Asterinaceae
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/genusrecord.asp?RecordID=5661 Index Fungorum]
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Category:Asterinaceae
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