Phaffomyces

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

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| taxon = Phaffomyces

| authority = Y. Yamada

| type_species = Phaffomyces opuntiae

| type_species_authority = (Starmer, Phaff, M. Miranda, M.W. Mill. & J.S.F. Barker) Y. Yamada

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Phaffomyces is a genus of fungi within the Phaffomycetales order.{{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}} It is placed within the Phaffomycetaceae fungi family.{{cite web |title=Phaffomyces Y.Yamada, 1997 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2598991 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=30 July 2022 |language=en}}

The genus name of Phaffomyces is in honour of Herman Jan Phaff (1913–2001),{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1146/annurev.mi.40.100186.000245 | last1 = Phaff | first1 = H. J. | title = My Life With Yeasts | journal = Annual Review of Microbiology | volume = 40 | pages = 1–28| year = 1986 | pmid = 3535641| doi-access = free }} who was a scientist who specialised in the ecology of yeast.{{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 Yuzo Yamada in Bull. Fac. Agric. Shizuoka Univ. vol.47 on page 30 in 1997.