Otthia

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Otthia
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Botryosphaeriales
Family: Botryosphaeriaceae
Genus: Otthia
Nitschke ex Fuckel
Type species
Otthia spiraeae
(Fuckel) Fuckel
Species

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Otthia is a genus of fungi in the family Botryosphaeriaceae. There are about 76 species.

The genus name of Otthia is in honour of Gustav Heinrich Otth (1806-1874), who was a Swiss mycologist and military officer.[1]

The genus was circumscribed by Theodor Rudolf Joseph Nitschke ex. Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel in Jahrb. Nassauischen Vereins Naturk. vol.23-24 (Symb.Mycol.) on page 169 in 1870.

GBIF accepted species are one with added authors.[2]

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