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Plectania
Sign in to savePlectania is a genus of fungi in the family Sarcosomataceae. It was circumscribed by German botanist Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel in 1870.
Species
stalked scarlet cup
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassPezizomycetes
- OrderPezizales
- FamilySarcosomataceae
Observations4,894
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 149
- With media
- 68
- Family
- Sarcosomataceae
- Collections
- LSUM, FH, MEL, UTC, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), FLAS
- Recorded in
- United States, Chile, Australia, Brasil, Canada, Mexico, Japan
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Sarcosomataceae
- Image
- Plectania nannfeldtii 187.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- taxon name
- Plectania
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Plectania melastoma
- Commons category
- Plectania
- taxon author citation
- Fuckel
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Species
- See also
- References
Plectania is a genus of fungi in the family Sarcosomataceae. It was circumscribed by German botanist Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel in 1870.
There were 15 species in the genus in 2008, this has increased to 19 by 2023.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Plectania” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.