Valetoniella

Valetoniella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Hypocreales
Family:	Niessliaceae
Genus:	Valetoniella; Höhn.
Type species
	Valetoniella crucipila; Höhn.

Valetoniella is a genus of fungi within the Niessliaceae family.^[1] The genus contains three species.^[2]

The genus was circumscribed by Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel in Sitzungsber. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. Abt. vol.1, 118: 1499 in 1909.

The genus name of Valetoniella is in honour of Theodoric Valeton (1855-1929), who was a Dutch botanist who went to Indonesia.^[3]

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^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 719. ISBN 0-85199-826-7.
^ 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.