Normandina | |
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Normandina pulchella | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
Order: | Verrucariales |
Family: | Verrucariaceae |
Genus: |
Normandina Nyl. (1855) |
Type species | |
Normandina jungermanniae (Nyl.) Nyl. (1855)
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Species | |
N. acroglypta | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Normandina is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Verrucariaceae. [2] It has five species of crustose and squamulose (scaly) lichens. [3]
The type species of the genus, Normandina jungermanniae, is now considered synonymous with Normandina pulchella. [5]
Lauderlindsaya is a genus that was proposed by David and Hawksworth in 1989 to contain the lichenicolous fungus Sphaerulina chlorococca, which was thought to grow parasitically on Normandina pulchella. [6] Later research showed that Lauderlindsaya represents the fertile form of Normandina, and the former name was subsumed into the latter. [7]