''Normandina'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

lichen A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), m ...

-forming

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in the family

Verrucariaceae Verrucariaceae is a family of lichens and a few non-lichenised fungi in the order Verrucariales. The lichens have a wide variety of thallus forms, from crustose (crust-like) to foliose (bushy) and squamulose (scaly). Most of them grow on lan ...

. It has five species of

crustose Crustose is a Habit (biology), habit of some types of algae and lichens in which the organism grows tightly appressed to a substrate, forming a biological layer. ''Crustose'' adheres very closely to the Substrate (biology), substrates at all poin ...

and squamulose (scaly)

s. * '' Normandina acroglypta'' – Europe * '' Normandina chlorococca'' – Northern Europe * '' Normandina dictyospora'' –

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* '' Normandina pulchella'' * '' Normandina simodensis'' The

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of the genus, ''Normandina jungermanniae'', is now considered

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with ''Normandina pulchella''. ''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''. Later research showed that ''Lauderlindsaya'' represents the fertile form of ''Normandina'', and the former name was subsumed into the latter.

References

Verrucariales Lichen genera Eurotiomycetes genera Taxa named by William Nylander (botanist) Taxa described in 1855 {{Eurotiomycetes-stub