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Genus: | Butlerelfia Weresub & Illman (1980)[1]
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Butlerelfia eustacei Weresub & Illman (1980)
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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.