Frommeella

Frommeella (Frommeëlla) is a genus of rust fungi in the family Phragmidiaceae. The widespread genus contains two species.^[2]

Frommeella
Frommeëlla tormentillae on Potentilla erecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Pucciniomycetes
Order:	Pucciniales
Family:	Phragmidiaceae
Genus:	Frommeella Cummins & Y.Hirats. (1983)
Type species
Frommeella tormentillae (Fuckel) Cummins & Y. Hirats. (1983)[1]
Species
Frommeella mexicana Frommeella tormentillae

The genus name of Frommeella is in honour of Fred Denton Fromme (1886–1966), who was an American botanist (Mycology) and Professor of Botany at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.^[3]

The genus was circumscribed by George Baker Cummins and Yasuyuki Hiratsuka in Ill. Gen. Rust Fungi, rev. ed., Vol.120 on page 151 in 1983.