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Maronina Hafellner & R. W. Rogers, Biblioth. Lichenol. 38: 100. 1990 Figure 3

Type species.

Maronina australiensis Hafellner & R. W. Rogers. Type. AUSTRALIA (Fig. 3). Queensland, Tandora about 25 km ENE of Maryborough, sea level, 25°27'S, 152°52'E, mangroves, on Rhizophora stylosa , 23 August 1986, J. Hafellner 17823 & R. W. Rogers (holotype GZU).

Based on molecular and phenotypical evidence, we propose Maronina s.str. to be a strictly Australian genus, comprising M. australiensis and M. hesperia Kantvilas & Elix only, as was suggested by Kantvilas and Elix (2007)) and Kantvilas et al. (2010). The genus Maronina contains depsides instead of depsidones as found in Neoprotoparmelia . Paraphyses in Maronina are slender and mostly simple, whereas those in Neoprotoparmelia are branched and anastomosing.