Plicaria Fuckel
(a genus of discomycetes)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Plicaria (a genus of discomycetes)
Family	PEZIZACEAE (cup fungi)
Order	PEZIZALES (cup fungus)
Subclass	PEZIZOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of cup fungi and discomycetes)
Class	PEZIZOMYCETES (discomycetes)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Plicaria is also a member of:
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Ascomycota)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Dickson, G., Kirk, P, Roberts, P. & Spooner, B.		British fungi - Keys	www.fieldmycology.net/FRDBI/keys.asp
	Spooner, B.	2001	The larger Cup Fungi in Britain - part 3. The genera Peziza and Plicaria	Field Mycology Vol 2 (2): 51-59.

Plicaria (a genus of discomycetes) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PEZIZACEAE
(cup fungi)

PEZIZALES
(cup fungus)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Plicaria (a genus of discomycetes)

BioInfo

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Plicaria (a genus of discomycetes)

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