Godronia

Godronia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Helotiales
Family: Helotiaceae
Genus: Godronia
Moug. & Lév.
Type species
Godronia muehlenbeckii
Moug. & Lév.

Godronia is a genus of fungi in the family Helotiaceae. The genus contains 27 species.

The genus name of Godronia is in honour of Dominique Alexandre Godron (1807-1880), who was a French physician, botanist, geologist and speleologist.

The genus was circumscribed by Jean Baptiste Mougeot and Joseph Henri Léveillé in Consid. Gen. Veg. Vosges on page 355 in 1846.

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