Fungalpedia – Note 2683, Normanogalla
Normanogalla Diederich.
Citation when using this data: Meng QF et al. – Fungalpedia.
Index Fungorum, Faceoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1.
Classification: Ostropales genera incertae sedis, Ostropomycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Normanogalla was introduced by Diederich (2014) to classify the lichenicolous, gall-inducing species N. cribriformis, formerly known as Lecanora cribriformis Norman, which grows on terricolous Pertusaria in Scandinavia and Greenland. This genus is characterized by pale, immersed, cleistohymenial ascomata; an ascomatal wall lacking crystals; abundant periphysoids; a KI- hymenium; subcylindrical, 8-spored asci with an unthickened or slightly thickened apical wall; and subspherical, aseptate ascospores. Normanogalla is monotypic, and no sequence data is available. Normanogalla has been tentatively placed within Ostropales as genera incertae sedis (Hyde et al. 2024).
Type species: Normanogalla cribriformis (Norman) Diederich, on Pertusaria (Diederich 2014)
= Lecanora cribriformis Norman.
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Normanogalla.
Figure 1 – Normanogalla cribriformis redrawn from Diederich (2014). a Section through closed ascoma. b Section through opened ascoma. c Periphysoids. d Paraphyses. e Asci. f Ascospores. Scale bars: a, b = 50 μm, c–e = 10 μm, f = 5 μm.
References
Entry by
Meng QF, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand and School of Public Health, Zunyi Medical University, Guizhou 563000, China.
Published online 8 July 2026