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| Normandina | |
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| Normandina pulchella | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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 | |
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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]