Martininia

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

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| regnum = Fungi

| divisio = Ascomycota

| classis = Ascomycetes

| ordo = Helotiales

| familia = Sclerotiniaceae

| genus = Martininia

| genus_authority = Dumont & Korf

| type_species = Martininia panamaensis

| type_species_authority = (Whetzel) Dumont & Korf

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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| synonyms_ref={{cite web |title=Martininia Dumont & Korf |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2583244 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=20 July 2022 |language=en}}

| synonyms = Martinia {{small|Whetzel, 1942}}

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Martininia 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 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archivedate=March 18, 2009 }}

The genus name of Martininia is in honour of George Willard Martin (1886–1971), who was an American 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 Kent Parsons Dumont and Richard Paul Korf in Mycologia vol.62 (Issue 3) on page 608 in 1970.

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