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Lichens Pan-Z (2007) - Flora of New Zealand Lichens - Revised Second Edition Pan-Z
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Toninia tumidula

T. tumidula (Sm.) Zahlbr., Cat. lich. univ. 4 (2): 278 (1926).

≡Lichen tumidulus Sm., Trans. Linn. Soc. 1: 82 (1791).

Description : Flora (1985: 583).

N: Sine loco. William Colenso 29907 (BM). S: Southland (Clifden). On limestone rocks. Known also from Europe (Nimis 1993; Nimis & Martellos 2003).

Cosmopolitan

Illustrations : Wirth (1987: 469; 1995b: 917).

Toninia tumidula is characterised by: the saxicolous (basicolous) habit: the whitish to yellowish brown, white-pruinose, warty, areolate-squamulose thallus; the black, epruinose apothecia; the red-brown hypothecium; and oblong ascospores, 10–16 × 3–6 μm.

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