Claim: Tomentella is part of the Fungi kingdom and the Thelephoraceae family and was discovered by French mycologist Elias Magnus Fries in 1887.
Evidence: Elias Magnus Fries FRS FRSE FLS RAS (15 August 1794 – 8 February 1878) was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. 
Tomentella was circumscribed by French mycologist Narcisse Théophile Patouillard in 1887.