Fungalpedia – Note 2645, Norrlinia

 

Norrlinia Theiss. & Syd. 

Citation when using this data: Meng QF et al. – Fungalpedia.

Index Fungorum, Faceoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Verrucariaceae, Verrucariales, Chaetothyriomycetidae, Eurotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.

Norrlinia was established by Theissen et al. (1918) for Norrlinia peltigericola, originally described as Verrucaria peltigericola Nyl., which grows on Peltigera canina. It is characterized by perithecioid apotheia, entirely black or dark brownish-black, with hyaline, ellipsoidal, finely muriform spores arranged in pairs (Nylander 1874). Kondratyuk et al. (1995a) later introduced N. medoborensis, found on Peltigera rufescens. Since its inception, this genus has been placed in Verrucariaceae and confirmed within Verrucariales by phylogenetic studies (Lumbsch et al. 2004, Lumbsch et al. 2005). Norrlinia contains two species with four available sequences of N. peltigericola in the Genbank.

Type species: Norrlinia peltigericola (Nyl.) Theiss. & Syd.

= Verrucaria peltigericola Nyl.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Norrlinia

 

References

Theissen Fv, Sydow H. 1918 – Vorentwürfe zu den Pseudosphaeriales. Annales Mycologici 16 (1–2), 1–34.

Nylander W. 1874 – Addenda nova ad Lichenographiam Europaeam. Contin. XIV. Flora 57, 6–16.

Kondratyuk SY, Galloway D 1995a – Two new lichenicolous fungi from Lobaria and Sticta (Stictaceae). in Danielis, FJA, Schulz, M, Peine, J,Contributions to Lichenology in Honour of Gerhard Follmann. , . Geobotanical and Phytotaxonomical Study Group, Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Cologne, 255–261.

Lumbsch HT, Schmitt I, Palice Z, Wiklund E et al. 2004 – Supraordinal phylogenetic relationships of Lecanoromycetes based on a Bayesian analysis of combined nuclear and mitochondrial sequences. Mol Phylogenet Evol 31 (3), 822–832.

Lumbsch HT, Schmitt I, Lindemuth R, Miller A et al. 2005 – Performance of four ribosomal DNA regions to infer higher-level phylogenetic relationships of inoperculate euascomycetes (Leotiomyceta). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 34 (3), 512–524.

 

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 30 June 2026

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