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Normandina Nyl. (1855)

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Aptroot A. (95-02-18); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 3 (A. Aptroot 99-09-27). Normandina. Verrucariaceae Zenker (1827); Verrucariales.

Type Information: Type: Normandina jungermanniae Nyl. (= N. pulchella (Borrer) Nyl.).

Taxonomic Literature: Aptroot A., Willdenowia 21: 263-267 (1991); Galloway D.J., Flora of
New Zealand Lichens: i-lxxiii, 1-662 [319-320], Wellington (1985);
Purvis O.W. in: Purvis O.W. et al. (eds), The Lichen Flora of Great
Britain and Ireland, London (1992); Swinscow T.D.V., Lichenologist 2:
167-169 (1963).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Great Britain, Guianas, Italy, New Zealand, Sonoran Desert, Sweden and Norway, Thailand, United States and Canada (continental), and Republic of South Africa.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; bryophytic or corticolous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Nanochloris (A. Beck 22-05-97); genus incertae sedis; family of unknown placement (incertae sedis), Trebouxiophyceae, Eukariota. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts, squamulose, granular, or areolate (primarily areolate). Upper Surface: Grey, green, or pink (rosé); special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate or sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Perithecioid, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface, not emerging, becoming adnate. Margin: External filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Present. Interascal Hyphae: Absent. Hypothecium: Black or brown.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, cylindrical or oblong, 20-55 µm long, 5-12 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate, 5-7-transversally septate; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline or pale brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected or present, of the following substance class(es): (tri-)terpenoids.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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