Toninia Explained

Toninia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Ramalinaceae.

The genus was 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.^[1]

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . 246307410 . January 27, 2022.