Wettsteinina
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| Wettsteinina | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Pleosporales |
| Family: | Pleosporaceae |
| Genus: | Wettsteinina Höhn. (1907)[1] |
| Type species | |
| Wettsteinina gigantospora (Rehm) Höhn. (1907) | |
Wettsteinina is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. The type species Wettsteinina gigantospora was first described by Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel in 1907.[2] The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class was unknown in 2008,[3] until it was resolved and placed in the Pleosporaceae family.[4]
