| Kwoniella | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Tremellomycetes |
| Order: | Tremellales |
| Family: | Cryptococcaceae |
| Genus: | Kwoniella Statzell & Fell (2008) |
| Type species | |
| Kwoniella mangrovensis | |
Kwoniella is a genus of fungi in the family Cryptococcaceae. The genus originally contained the single species Kwoniella mangrovensis, found in the Florida Everglades and The Bahamas.[1] Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has however, now extended the genus to eleven species, most known only from their yeast states.[2]
The genus was named in recognition of Dr K.J. Kwon-Chung for her research contributions to the Tremellales.[3]
- ^ Statzell-Tallman A, Belloch C, Fell JW (2008). "Kwoniella mangroviensis gen. nov., sp nov (Tremellales, Basidiomycota), a teleomorphic yeast from mangrove habitats in the Florida Everglades and Bahamas". FEMS Yeast Research. 8 (1): 103–13. doi:10.1111/j.1567-1364.2007.00314.x. PMID 17961172.
- ^ Liu XZ, Wang QM, Göker M, Groenewald M, Kachalkin AV, Lumbsch HT, Millanes AM, Wedin M, Yurkov AM, Boekhout T, Bai FY (2015). "Towards an integrated phylogenetic classification of the Tremellomycetes". Studies in Mycology. 81: 85–147. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2015.12.001. PMC 4777781.
- ^ Statzell-Tallman A, Belloch C, Fell JW (2008). "Kwoniella mangroviensis gen. nov., sp nov (Tremellales, Basidiomycota), a teleomorphic yeast from mangrove habitats in the Florida Everglades and Bahamas". FEMS Yeast Research. 8 (1): 103–13. doi:10.1111/j.1567-1364.2007.00314.x. PMID 17961172.