Plectania

Plectania
Plectania nannfeldtii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Sarcosomataceae
Genus: Plectania
Fuckel (1870)
Type species
Plectania melastoma
(Sowerby) Fuckel (1870)
Synonyms[1]

Gloeocalyx Massee (1901)
Peziza subgen. Rhizopodella Cooke (1879)

Plectania is a genus of fungi in the Sarcosomataceae family. There are 15 species in the genus, which have a widespread distribution, especially in northern temperate areas.[2] Plectania was circumscribed by German botanist Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel in 1870.[3]

Species

References

  1. "Plectania Fuckel 1870". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 544. ISBN 0-85199-826-7.
  3. Fuckel L. (1870). "Symbolae mycologicae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der rheinischen Pilze". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde (in German) 23–4: 323.
  4. Carbone M, Agnello C, LaGreca S. (2012). "Plectania seaveri (Ascomycota, Pezizales), a new discomycete from Bermuda". Mycotaxon 120: 317–29. doi:10.5248/120.317.

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