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Jafnea
Sign in to saveJafnea is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae. It was circumscribed by mycologist Richard P. Korf in 1960.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassPezizomycetes
- OrderPezizales
- FamilyPyronemataceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Pyronemataceae
- Collections
- MEL, VPI, TRH
- Recorded in
- Australia, United States, New Caledonia, Spain
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pyronemataceae
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- taxon name
- Jafnea
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- Korf
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Encyclopedic overview
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Jafnea is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae. It was circumscribed by mycologist Richard P. Korf in 1960.
The genus name of Jafnea is in honour of Johan Axel Frithiof Nannfeldt (1904–1985), who was a Swedish botanist and mycologist.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jafnea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.