Toninia sedifolia (Scop.) Timdal

Details

Name scientific

Toninia sedifolia (Scop.) Timdal, Opera Bot. 110: 93 (1991)

Preferred name

Thalloidima sedifolium (Scop.) Kistenich, Timdal, Bendiksby & S.Ekman

Taxonomy reference

Kistenich, S.; Timdal, E.; Bendiksbyl, M.; Ekman, S. 2018: Molecular systematics and character evolution in the lichen family Ramalinaceae (Ascomycota: Lecanorales). Taxon 67(5): 871–904.

Linked name

Toninia sedifolia (Scop.) Timdal

Nomenclature

Authors

(Scop.) Timdal

Original authors

Scop.

Combination authors

Timdal

Publication place

Timdal, E. 1991: A monograph of the genus Toninia (Lecideaceae, Ascomycetes). Opera Botanica 110: 1–137.

Year published

1991

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lichen sedifolius Scop.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Toninia sedifolia

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Catillariaceae

Genus

Toninia

Species

sedifolia

Synonyms

Toninia caeruleonigricans sensu auct. non (Lightf.) Th.Fr.

Descriptions

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

Toninia caeruleonigricans sensu auct. non (Lightf.) Th.Fr.

Description

Thallus determinate, squamulose. Squamules convex, pale brown, glaucous- or bluish-black, densely white-pruinose or bluish-grey pruinose, imbricate, sometimes scattered, round-lobed at margins. Apothecia sessile, frequent, convex, to 5 mm diam., black, with a grey pruina, marginate at first becoming immarginate with age. Ascospores 1-septate, subfusiform or subacicular, 11-30 × 2-4 µm.