Seaverinia

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

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| regnum = Fungi

| divisio = Ascomycota

| classis = Ascomycetes

| ordo = Helotiales

| familia = Sclerotiniaceae

| genus = Seaverinia

| genus_authority = Whetzel

| type_species = Seaverinia geranii

| type_species_authority = (Seaver & W.T. Horne) Whetzel

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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| synonyms = Sclerotinia geranii {{Au|Seaver & W.T. Horne}}, Mem. Torrey bot. Club 17: 205 (1918)

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Seaverinia 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 }} This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Seaverinia geranii.

The genus was circumscribed by Herbert Hice Whetzel in Mycologia vol.37 (6) on page 703 in 1945.{{cite web |title=Species Fungorum - GSD Species |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/GSDSpecies.asp?RecordID=290832 |website=www.speciesfungorum.org |access-date=23 October 2022}}

The genus name of Seaverinia is in honour of Fred Jay Seaver (1877–1970), 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}}