Grovesinia
{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}
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| taxon = Grovesinia
| authority = M.N. Cline, J.L. Crane & S.D. Cline
| type_species = Grovesinia pyramidalis
| type_species_authority = M.N. Cline, J.L. Crane & S.D. Cline
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Grovesinia is a genus of fungi in the family Sclerotiniaceae.{{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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archive-date=2009-03-18 }}
The genus name of Grovesinia is in honour of James Walton Groves (1906-1970), who was a Canadian mycologist.{{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 Molly Niedbalski Cline, J. Leland Crane and S.D. Cline in Mycologia vol.75 (Issue 6) on page 989 in 1983.
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External links
- [http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/genusrecord.asp?RecordID=25807 Index Fungorum]
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