''Toninia'' 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 ...
of
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 fungi in the family Ramalinaceae.
The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in Ric. Auton. Lich. Crost. on page 107 in 1852.
The genus name of ''Toninia'' is in honour of Carlo Tonini (1803–1877), who was an Italian chemist and botanist (Lichenology), who worked in Verona and was a member and President of the Academy of Agriculture.
Species
*''Toninia afferens''
*''Toninia alutacea''
*''Toninia australiensis''
*''Toninia cinereovirens''
*''Toninia coquimbensis''
*''Toninia diffracta''
*''Toninia episema''
*''Toninia leucina''
*''Toninia nashii''
*''Toninia plumbina''
*''Toninia poeltiana''
*''Toninia populorum''
*''Toninia scorigena''
*''Toninia squalescens''
*''Toninia squalida''
*''Toninia subdispersa''
*''Toninia subfuscae''
*''Toninia submesoidea''
*''Toninia subnitida''
*''Toninia subtalparum''
*''Toninia tecta''
*''Toninia thiopsora''
*''Toninia tristis''
*''Toninia ualae''
*''Toninia verrucariae''
*''Toninia wetmorei''
References
Ramalinaceae
Lichen genera
Lecanorales genera
Taxa described in 1852
Taxa named by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo
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