Butlerelfia

Butlerelfia is a fungal genus in the family Atheliaceae. The genus is monotypic, containing the single corticioid species Butlerelfia eustacei, recorded from Europe and Canada.^[2] The species causes fisheye rot of refrigerated apples. The binomial honors H. J. Eustace and L. F. Butler, who first described the species under the name Corticium centrifugum.

Butlerelfia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Atheliales
Family:	Atheliaceae
Genus:	Butlerelfia Weresub & Illman (1980)[1]
Type species
Butlerelfia eustacei Weresub & Illman (1980)

See also

• List of apple diseases