''Plicatura'' is a fungal

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in the order

Agaricales The fungal order Agaricales, also known as gilled mushrooms (for their distinctive gills) or euagarics, contains some of the most familiar types of mushrooms. The order has 33 extant families, 413 genera, and over 13,000 described species, alo ...

. It is '' incertae sedis'' with respect to

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placement within the order, although Kirk and colleagues (''Dictionary of the Fungi'', 10th edition, 2008) consider it likely aligned with either the

Amylocorticiaceae Amylocorticiales is an order of fungi in the class Agaricomycetes. The order was circumscribed in 2010 to contain mostly resupinate (crust-like) forms that have been referred to genera '' Anomoporia'', ''Amyloathelia'', '' Amylocorticiellum'', ...

or the Tricholomataceae. The genus, circumscribed by

Charles Horton Peck Charles Horton Peck (March 30, 1833 – July 11, 1917) was an American mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the New York State Botanist from 1867 to 1915, a period in which he described over 2,700 species of North American fun ...

in 1872, contains the single species ''Plicatura nivea'' (

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with ''Plicatura alni'' Peck 1872).

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7204958 Enigmatic Agaricales taxa Taxa described in 1872 Monotypic Agaricales genera Taxa named by Charles Horton Peck