Chapeckia
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| Chapeckia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Diaporthales |
| Family: | Sydowiellaceae |
| Genus: | Chapeckia M.E.Barr (1978) |
| Type species | |
| Chapeckia nigrospora (Peck) M.E.Barr (1978) | |
Chapeckia is a genus of fungi in the family Sydowiellaceae. The genus was described by mycologist Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow in 1978.[1]
The genus name of Chapeckia is in honour of Charles Horton Peck (1833–1917), who was an American mycologist. He had described over 2,700 species of North American fungi.[2]
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