Tornabea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Caliciales |
Family: | Physciaceae |
Genus: | Tornabea Oesth. (1980) |
Type species | |
Tornabea scutellifera (With.) J.R. Laundon (1984) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Tornabea is a monotypic genus of lichenized fungi in the family Physciaceae. [2] It only contains the one accepted species, Tornabea scutellifera(With.) J.R. Laundon (1984)
2 other species has been found to be synonyms of Tornabea scutellifera; Tornabea atlantica(Ach.) Østh. (1980) and Tornabea atlantica var. intricata(DC.) Clauzade & Cl. Roux (1985) [3]
The genus was circumscribed by Haavard Østhagen in Taxon vol.29 on pages 687-688 in 1980.
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