Capronia normandinae

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Capronia normandinae is a species of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) fungus in the family Herpotrichiellaceae. The fungus was first formally described in 1990 by Rolf Santesson and David Hawksworth. The fungus has been recorded from Papua New Guinea, the Atlantic Ocean (Portugal, Madeira), Australasia (New Zealand), Europe (France, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, UK), and South America (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador). The fungus parasitises the host lichen Normandina pulchella, after which it is named.

A characteristic feature of Capronia normandinae is the black, hair-like structures on its surface called setose perithecia. The fungus produces light olive-brown ascospores typically measuring 15–21 by 7.5–9.0 μm. These spores look like they have many internal divisions because they contain tiny fat droplets ({{lichengloss|guttules}}) and special cell walls (distosepta). Around the fungus's opening (the ostiole), there are simple (unbranched), unsegmented hair-like growths (setae).

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{{cite book |last1=Aptroot |first1=André |last2=Diederich |first2=Paul |last3=Sérusiaux |first3=Emmanuël |last4=Sipman |first4=Harrie J.M. |year=1997 |title=Lichens and Lichenicolous Fungi from New Guinea |series=Bibliotheca Lichenologica |volume=64 |page=47 |publisher=J. Cramer |isbn=978-3-443-58043-8}}

{{cite journal |last=Cannon |first=P.F. |last2=Minter |first2=D.W. |title=Capronia normandinae. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria]. |journal=Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria |date=2021-10-18 |issn=2514-5592 |doi=10.1079/DFB/20210407794 |page=2273}}

{{Catalogue of Life |id=QSWJ |title=Capronia normandinae R. Sant. & D. Hawksw. |access-date=16 December 2024}}

{{cite journal |last1=Diederich |first1=Paul |last2=Lawrey |first2=James D. |last3=Ertz |first3=Damien |title=The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa |journal=The Bryologist |volume=121 |issue=3 |year=2018 |page=363 |doi=10.1639/0007-2745-121.3.340 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328374342}}

{{cite journal |last1=Hawksworth |first1=D.L. |year=1990 |title=Notes on British lichenicolous fungi: VI |journal=Notes from the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh |volume=46 |pages=391–403}}

{{cite book |last1=Orange |first1=A. |last2=Cannon |first2=P. |last3=Prieto |first3=M. |last4=Coppins |first4=B. |last5=Sanderson |first5=N. |last6=Simkin |first6=J. |year=2023 |title=Verrucariales: Verrucariaceae, including the genera Agonimia, Atla, Bagliettoa, Catapyrenium, Dermatocarpon, Endocarpon, Henrica, Heteroplacidium, Hydropunctaria, Involucropyrenium, Merismatium, Nesothele, Normandina, Parabagliettoa, Placidopsis, Placidium, Placopyrenium, Polyblastia, Psoroglaena, Sporodictyon, Staurothele, Thelidium, Trimmatothele, Verrucaria, Verrucula, Verruculopsis and Wahlenbergiella |series=Revisions of British and Irish Lichens |volume=31 |page=43 |url=https://britishlichensociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/Verrucariaceae_1.pdf |publisher=British Lichen Society}}

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Category:Chaetothyriales

Category:Fungus species

Category:Fungi described in 1990

Category:Lichenicolous fungi

Category:Fungi of New Guinea

Category:Fungi of Europe

Category:Fungi of New Zealand

Category:Fungi of South America

Category:Taxa named by Rolf Santesson

Category:Taxa named by David Leslie Hawksworth