Fungalpedia – Note 1797, Rinodina

 

Rinodina (Ach.) Gray

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Classification: PhysciaceaeCaliciales, LecanoromycetidaeLecanoromycetesPezizomycotinaAscomycota, Fungi

The genus was introduced by Gray (1821) and includes around 300 species (Jaklitsch et al. 2016). Taxa are widely distributed and characterised by crustose to subsquamulose, rarely squamulose thallus, ascomata apothecial, asci (4–) 8-spored and olive-green or brown, ellipsoid ascospores (Elix 2011).

Type species: Rinodina abolescens H. Magn., Acta horti götoburg. 17: 297 (1947).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Rinodina.

 

References

Ekanayaka AH, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Zhao Q, Bulgakov TS 2019 – New and known discolichens from Asia and eastern Europe. Asian Journal of Mycology 2(1), 48–86, Doi 10.5943/ajom/2/1/2.