''Leucangium'' is a genus of ascomycete fungi.
The genus was circumscribed by French mycologist Lucien Quélet in 1883.
[ Although classification (biology), classified in the Helvellaceae in the past (''e.g.'', in ''Dictionary of the Fungi'', 10th edition, 2008),][ molecular phylogenetics, molecular analysis indicates it is closely related to the genus ''Fischerula'' and ''Imaia'', and therefore must be placed in the Morchellaceae.][ The genus includes two species, ''Leucangium ophthalmosporum'' Quél. (the type species, type of the genus) and ''Leucangium carthusianum, L. carthusianum'' (Tul. & C. Tul.) Paol., and both of them produce wikt:sequestrate, sequestrate (fully or partly underground) ascoma, globose to ellipsoidal ascus (inamyloid and eight-spored), and dark olive-colored to grayish green, smooth, fusiform ascospores.][
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Morchellaceae
Pezizales genera
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