Pseudoplectania

Pseudoplectania is a genus of fungi in the family Sarcosomataceae. The genus contains 12 species. Pseudoplectania ryvardenii was described in 2012, while Pseudoplectania carranzae was transferred to the genus (from Plectania) in 2013.

==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed by the German botanist Fuckel in 1870, who originally included the two species Pseudoplectania nigrella and P. fulgens. In 1889, Pier Andrea Saccardo removed the latter species from the genus, making it the type species of his newly created Otidella (now considered synonymous with Caloscypha as described by Boudier in 1885). Saccardo added the species Pseudoplectania melania and P. stygia, the latter of which is thought to be synonymous with P. nigrella.