Normandina

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Eurotiomycetes
Subclassis: Chaetothyriomycetidae
Ordo: Verrucariales

Familia: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Normandina
Species: N. acroglypta – N. pulchella – N. simodense
Name

Normandina Nyl., 1855

Type Species: Normandina jungermanniae (Nyl.) Nyl., 1855

Normandina pulchella, Rainbow Falls Trail, Smokies, Tennessee

References

Nyl., Mém. Soc. Sci. nat. Cherbourg 3: 191 (1855)

Nylander, W. (1855) Essai d'une nouvelle classification des lichens, (second mémoire). - Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 3: 161–202. **[Mattick Rec.# 28973] - (Recent Literature on Lichens - Mattick No.)** (PDF file)

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Vernacular names
English: Clam lichens

Normandina is a genus of fungi in the Ascomycota phylum. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the phylum is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any class, order, or family.[1]
See also

List of Ascomycota genera incertae sedis

References

Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58.

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