Thielavia
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Thielavia is a genus of fungi in the family Chaetomiaceae. Circumscribed by German botanist Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf in 1876,[1] Thielavia is a teleomorph of Myceliophthora.[2] Collectively, the genus is widely distributed, and according to a 2008 estimate, contained 31 species.[3] Thielavia heterothallica and T. terrestris can cause infections in humans.[2]
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Thielavia basicola Zopf (1871) |
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The genus name of Thielavia is in honour of Friedrich Joachim Sigismund von Thielau (1796–1870), who was a German forester and landowner in Breslau.[4]