Buelliella
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| Buelliella | |
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| Buelliella trypethelii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Asterinales |
| Family: | Stictographaceae |
| Genus: | Buelliella Fink (1935) |
| Type species | |
| Buelliella minimula (Tuck.) Fink (1935) | |
Buelliella is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) fungi in the family Stictographaceae. It comprises 13 thirteen species.[1] The genus was established in 1935 by the American lichenologist Bruce Fink, who originally included seven species. These fungi are parasites that live on other lichens, producing small disc-shaped fruiting bodies that start buried in their host and later emerge at the surface.
The genus was originally circumscribed by the American lichenologist Bruce Fink in 1935. He included seven species in his original concept of the genus.[2] Fink did not specify a type species for the genus; Josef Hafellner assigned B. minimula as the type in 1979.[3]