A new species of Pseudoplectania (Sarcosomataceae, Pezizales) from Venezuela

a new species of the genus pseudoplectania (sarcosomataceae, pezizales) was collected on wood in a tropical forest in southern venezuela, at gran sabana, canaima national park, bolívar state; species of the genus pseudoplectania are characterized by having a deep cup shaped sessile or stipitated apothecia, covered by coiled or twisted hairs, j- asci containing 8 globose, smooth, hyaline ascospores; the new species can be distinguished from the rest of the species in the genus in having small short-stipitate apothecia, cylindrical hyaline paraphyses and ascospores with small scattered warts visible only in material stained with aqueous congo red; ornamented ascospores have not been previously described in the genus.