Roesleria

Roesleria is a fungal genus in the family Roesleriaceae.

The genus was circumscribed by Felix Karl Albert Ernst Joachim von Thümen-Gräfendorf and Giovanni Passerini in Oesterr. Bot. Z. vol.27 on page 270 in 1877.

The genus name of Roesleria is in honour of Leonard Roesler (1839–1910), who was a German-Austrian chemist and oenologist, he was Professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1867.

Species
As accepted by Species Fungorum;
 * Roesleria brasiliana
 * Roesleria bubonis
 * Roesleria norrlinii
 * Roesleria subterranea

Former species;
 * R. coniophaea = Sclerophora pallida Coniocybaceae
 * R. hyalinella = Sclerophora peronella
 * R. hypogaea = Roesleria subterranea
 * R. pallida sensu auct. p.p., = Roesleria subterranea
 * R. pallida = Sclerophora pallida
 * R. pallida var. farinacea = Sclerophora farinacea
 * R. pilacriformis = Roesleria subterranea