Porpidinia tumidula (Sw.) Timdal

Details

Name scientific

Porpidinia tumidula (Sw.) Timdal, Biblioth. Lichenol. 104: 334 (2010)

Preferred name

Porpidinia tumidula (Sw.) Timdal

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Timdal

Original authors

Sw.

Authors

(Sw.) Timdal

Publication place

Timdal, E. 2010: Porpidinia (Porpidiaceae), a new genus for Toninia tumidula. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 104: 333–337.

Year published

2010

Publication page

334

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lichen tumidulus Sm.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Porpidinia tumidula

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Porpidiaceae

Genus

Porpidinia

Species

tumidula

Synonyms

Descriptions

Galloway, D. J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Government Printer, Wellington.

Toninia tumidula (Sm.) Zahlbr.

Description

Thallus subdeterminate, thickish, warty or areolate-squamulose, crowded or dispersed, saxicolous or terricolous. Areolae sublobate, plicate, turgid, wrinkled or cracked, whitish to yellowish-brown, often white-pruinose. Apothecia sessile on margins of areolae, disc plane and thinly marginate, becoming convex and immarginate, often confluent, black, epruinose. Hypothecium red-brown. Spores 1-septate, oblong, 12 × 6 µm.