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{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}
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| regnum = [[Fungi]]
| divisio = [[Ascomycota]]
| classis = [[Leotiomycetes]]
| ordo = [[Helotiales]]
| familia = [[incertae sedis]]
| genus = '''''Zugazaea'''''
| genus_authority = Korf, Iturr. & Lizoň (1998)
| type_species = '''''Zugazaea agyrioides'''''
| type_species_authority = Korf, Iturr. & Lizoň (1998)
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'''''Zugazaea''''' is a fungal [[genus]] in the order [[Helotiales]]. The relationship of this [[taxon]] to other taxa within the [[order (biology)|order]] is unknown (''[[incertae sedis]]''), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any [[family (biology)|family]].<ref name="OoA"/> This is a [[monotypic]] genus, containing the single species '''''Zugazaea agyrioides''''', which was found growing on decomposing wood in the [[Canary Islands]]. The fungus produces small, dull orange [[ascocarp|fruitbodies]] that seem to be embedded in a resinous or mulicaginous material. The [[type species]] is named for its resemblance to some members of the genus ''[[Agyrium]]''.<ref name="Iturriaga 1998"/>
The genus was [[circumscription (taxonomy)|circumscribed]] by [[Richard Paul Korf]], María Teresita 'Teresa' Iturriaga de Capiello and [[Pavel Lizoň]] in Mycologia vol.90 (4) on page 698 in 1998.
The genus name of ''Zugazaea'' is in honour of Álvaro Zugaza (1911–2002), who was a Spanish [[Pharmacist]] and Mycologist. He worked in [[Bilbao]] and obtained his doctorate researching Ergot fungus ([[Claviceps]]).<ref>{{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}}</ref>
==References==
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<ref name="Iturriaga 1998">{{cite journal |vauthors=Iturriaga T, Korf RP, Lizon P |title=''Zugazaea agyrioides'', an odd genus and species from Macronesia |journal=Mycologia |year=1998 |volume=90 |issue=4 |pages=697–700 |url=http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0090/004/0697.htm |doi=10.2307/3761228|jstor=3761228 }}</ref>
<ref name="OoA">{{cite journal|vauthors=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 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archive-date=March 18, 2009 }}</ref>
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[[Category:Fungi of Europe]]
[[Category:Helotiales]]
[[Category:Monotypic Leotiomycetes genera]]
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