[3] It was circumscribed by Czech mycologist August Carl Joseph Corda in 1842.

[4] The generic name honours German-Dutch botanist Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn.

[5] The fruit bodies of Junghuhnia species are crust-like (rarely with a cap).

They have a dimitic hyphal system and encrusted cystidia.

[6] As of June 2017[update], Index Fungorum accepts 36 species in Junghuhnia:[7]