Curreya

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

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| taxon = Curreya

| authority = Sacc.

| type_species = Curreya conorum

| type_species_authority = (Fuckel) Sacc.

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Curreya is a genus of fungi in the family Cucurbitariaceae.{{cite journal|last=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archivedate=2009-03-18 }}

The genus name of Curreya is in honour of Frederick Currey (1819–1881), a British botanist and Secretary of the Linnean Society between 1860 – 1880.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}

The genus was circumscribed by Pier Andrea Saccardo in Syll. Fung. Vol.2 on page 651 in 1883.

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;{{cite web |title=Species Fungorum – Search Page – Curreya |url=https://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp |website=www.speciesfungorum.org |access-date=24 July 2023}}

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