Erikssonopsis

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

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| taxon = Erikssonopsis

| authority = Höhn. n. illeg. (non Clem.)

| type_species = Erikssonopsis ericae

| type_species_authority = (Fr.) M. Morelet

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Erikssonopsis is a genus of fungi in the family Helotiaceae.{{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 }} This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Erikssonopsis ericae.

The genus name of Erikssonopsis is in honour of Birgitta Eriksson (b.1934), a Swedish botanist (Mycology).{{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 Michel Morelet in Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Archéol. Toulon Var Vol.195 on page 7 in 1971.