Heuflera is a fungal genus in the division Ascomycota.[1]

Heuflera
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Heuflera

Bail (1860)
Type species
Heuflera betulae
Bail (1860)

The genus name of Heuflera is in honour of Ludwig Samuel Joseph David Alexander von Heufler (1817-1885), who was an Austrian baron and cryptogamist.[2]

The genus was circumscribed by Carl Adolf Emmo Theodor Bail in Österr. Bot. Z. vol.10 on page 110 in 1860.

The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the phylum is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any class, order, or family.[3] This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Heuflera betulae.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "Heuflera Bail, 1860". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  2. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  3. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.