Junghuhnia

Junghuhnia is a genus of crust fungi in the family Steccherinaceae (formerly placed in the family Meruliaceae). It was circumscribed by Czech mycologist August Carl Joseph Corda in 1842. The generic name honours German-Dutch botanist Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn. The fruit bodies of Junghuhnia species are crust-like (rarely with a cap). They have a dimitic hyphal system and encrusted cystidia. Their spores are obovoid (egg-shaped) to cylindrical. As of June 2017, Index Fungorum accepts 36 species in Junghuhnia: