Tasmidella

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

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| taxon = Tasmidella

| authority = Kantvilas, Hafellner & Elix (1999)

| type_species = Tasmidella variabilis

| type_species_authority = Kantvilas, Hafellner & Elix (1999)

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Tasmidella is a lichen genus in the family Ramalinaceae.{{cite web |title=Tasmidella |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7SZ7 |access-date=21 October 2022 |publisher=Catalogue of Life}} Circumscribed by Gintaras Kantvilas, Josef Hafellner, and John A. Elix in 1999, it contains the single species Tasmidella variabilis, found in Tasmania. It is distinguished from the closely related genus Megalaria by having simple spores with a layered wall.

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{{cite journal |last1=Kantvilas |first1=Gintaras |last2=Hafellner |first2=Josef |last3=Elix |first3=John A. |title=Tasmidella, a new lichen genus from Tasmania, with a revised circumscription of the family Megalariaceae |journal=The Lichenologist |year=1999 |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=213–225 |doi=10.1017/S0024282999000316 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231996014}}

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Category:Lecanorales

Category:Lichen genera

Category:Monotypic Lecanorales genera

Category:Taxa named by Josef Hafellner

Category:Taxa named by Gintaras Kantvilas

Category:Taxa named by John Alan Elix

Category:Taxa described in 1999

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