Pleurothecium

Pleurothecium
Pleurothecium recurvatum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Pleurotheciales
Family: Pleurotheciaceae
Genus: Pleurothecium
Höhn.
Type species
Pleurothecium recurvatum

Pleurothecium is a genus of terrestrial and freshwater fungi in the family Pleurotheciaceae. It is typified by Pleurothecium recurvatum as the type species (Morgan) Höhn, which has the synonym of Carpoligna pleurothecii F.A. Fernández & Huhndorf, Mycologia 9: 253. 1999.