Holwaya

Holwaya
Holwaya mucida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Leotiales
Family: Bulgariaceae
Genus: Holwaya
Sacc. (1889)
Type species
Holwaya ophiobolus
(Ellis) Sacc. (1889)

Holwaya is a genus of fungi in the family Bulgariaceae. Holwaya is monotypic,[1] containing the single species Holwaya mucida, which was originally named Bulgaria ophiobolus by Job Bicknell Ellis in 1883,[2] and later transferred to the newly created Holwaya by Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1889.[3] Holwaya mucida has an anamorph known as Crinula caliciiformis.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 320. ISBN 9780851998268.
  2. Ellis JB. (1883). "New species of North American fungi". The American Naturalist. 17: 192–6. doi:10.1086/273286.
  3. Saccardo PA. (1889). "Discomyceteae et Phymatosphaeriaceae". Sylloge Fungorum (in Latin). 8: 646.


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