Urceolaria

Urceolaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Pertusariales
Family: Megasporaceae
Genus: Urceolaria
Bonord.
Type species
Urceolaria agelaea
(Ach.) Ach.

Urceolaria is a genus of fungi in the Pezizales order. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the order is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any family. The genus was described by the German mycologist Hermann Friedrich Bonorden in 1851.[1] According to the Dictionary of the Fungi (10th edition, 2008), the genus contains about 100 species.[2]

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