Bresadolina

Bresadolina is a genus of fungi in the Ascomycota phylum. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the phylum is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any class, order, or family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Bresadolina stellaris.

The genus name of Bresadolina is in honour of Giacomo Bresadola (also as Giacopo, 1847 – 1929), was an eminent Italian mycologist.

The genus was circumscribed by Johann Rick in Egatea Vol.13 on page 439 in 1928.