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Genus: | Colensoniella Hafellner
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Colensoniella torulispora (W. Phillips) Hafellner
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Colensoniella is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown (incertae sedis).[1] A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Colensoniella torulispora.
The genus name of Colensoniella is in honour of A. Colenso, the plant collector of the plant in New Zealand.[2]
The genus was circumscribed by Josef Hafellner in Beih. Nova Hedwigia Vol.62 on page 160 in 1979.