Kernia

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

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| regnum = Fungi

| divisio = Ascomycota

| classis = Sordariomycetes

| subclassis = Hypocreomycetidae

| ordo = Microascales

| familia = Microascaceae

| genus = Kernia

| genus_authority = Nieuwl.

| type_species = Kernia nitida

| type_species_authority = (Sacc.) Nieuwl.

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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Kernia is a genus of fungi in the family Microascaceae.{{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 Kernia is in honour of Frank Dunn Kern (1883–1973), who was an American plant pathologist and university administrator. He was a faculty member of Pennsylvania State University.{{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 Julius Nieuwland in 1916.