Toniniopsis aromatica (Sm.) Kistenich, Timdal, Bendiksby & S.Ekman

Details

Name scientific

Toniniopsis aromatica (Sm.) Kistenich, Timdal, Bendiksby & S.Ekman, Taxon 67: 898 (2018)

Preferred name

Toniniopsis aromatica (Sm.) 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.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Homotypic synonym, Toninia aromatica, treated for New Zealand by Galloway (2007). Cosmopolitan.

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Kistenich, Timdal, Bendiksby & S.Ekman

Original authors

Sm.

Authors

(Sm.) Kistenich, Timdal, Bendiksby & S.Ekman

Publication place

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.

Year published

2018

Publication page

898

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Lichen aromaticus Sm.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Toniniopsis aromatica

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Ascomycetes

Order

Lecanorales

Family

Ramalinaceae

Genus

Toniniopsis

Species

aromatica

Synonyms

Descriptions

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

Toninia aromatica (Sm.) A.Massal.

Description

Thallus squamulose, somewhat indeterminate, irregularly spreading, often in clumps or hummocks to 3 cm diam., saxicolous. Squamules thickish, pale to dark grey or blackish, congested, verrucose, nodular-papillate to ± discrete, plane or scattered, epruinose. Apothecia to 3 mm diam., rounded or contorted- angular, sessile, plane and marginate at first becoming convex and immarginate, black, epruinose. Ascospores 3-septate, oblong-cylindrical, 13-25 × 4-6 µm.