''Ramalina'' is a genus of greenish fruticose

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s on the cortex are K−, C−, KC+ dark yellow, and P−. It is in the Ramalinaceae and in the suborder Lecanorineae.

Distribution

The genus has a widespread distribution. A 2008 estimate placed more than 240 species in ''Ramalina''.

Species

*'' R. ailaoshanensis'' – China *'' R. alisiosae'' – Canary Islands *'' R. americana'' – North America *'' R. andina'' – Venezuela *'' R. arabum'' *'' R. arsenii'' – Europe *'' R. azorica'' – Azores *'' R. australiensis'' *'' R. banzarensis'' *'' R. breviuscula'' *'' R. caespitella'' – Australia *'' R. calcarata'' – East Africa *'' R. calicaris'' *'' R. canalicularis'' *'' R. canariensis'' *'' R. cannonii'' – Peninsular Malaysia *'' R. capitata'' *'' R. carminae'' *'' R. celastri'' *'' R. chihuahuana'' – Mexico *'' R. chiguarensis'' – Venezuela *'' R. chondrina'' *'' R. cinereovirens'' – South Korea *'' R. confirmata'' *'' R. coreana'' – Southeast Asia *'' R. corymbosa'' *'' R. crispata'' – Venezuela *'' R. cuspidata'' *'' R. darwiniana'' – Galapagos *'' R. dilacerata'' *'' R. disparata'' – Africa *'' R. dissimilis'' – Tanzania *'' R. dumeticola'' – Africa *'' R. europaea'' – Europe *'' R. exiguella'' *'' R. exilis'' – Japan *'' R. farinacea'' *'' R. fastigiata'' *'' R. fecunda'' – Africa *'' R. filicaulis'' – Australia *'' R. fimbriata'' – East Africa *'' R. fissa'' *'' R. fragilis'' – Galapagos *'' R. fraxinea'' *'' R. furcellangulida'' – Galapagos *'' R. gallowayi'' *'' R. geniculatella'' –

Saint Helena Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constitu ...

*'' R. glaucescens'' *'' R. gloriosensis'' –

Scattered Islands The Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean (french: Îles Éparses or ''Îles Éparses de l'océan Indien'') consist of four small coral islands, an atoll, and a reef in the Indian Ocean, and have constituted the 5th district of the French Sout ...

*'' R. hengduanshanensis'' *'' R. hivertiana'' – Scattered Islands *'' R. hoehneliana'' *'' R. hyrcana'' *'' R. inclinata'' *'' R. inflata'' *'' R. intermedia'' *'' R. intestiniformis'' – Korea *'' R. ketner-oostrae'' – Saint Helena *'' R. krogiae'' –

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

*'' R. labiosorediata'' – North America *'' R. lacera'' *'' R. leiodea'' *'' R. litorea'' *'' R. lopezii'' – Venezuela *'' R. luciae'' *'' R. mahoneyi'' *'' R. maritima'' – Africa *'' R. marteaui'' – Scattered Islands *'' R. menziesii'' *'' R. meridionalis'' *'' R. microphylla'' – Venezuela *'' R. nervulosa'' *'' R. obtusata'' *'' R. osorioi'' *'' R. pacifica'' – Japan *'' R. panizzei'' *'' R. peruviana'' *'' R. pollinaria'' *'' R. polyforma'' – Galapagos *'' R. polymorpha'' *'' R. portuensis'' *'' R. psoromica'' – Mexico *'' R. qinlingensis'' – China *'' R. quercicola'' *'' R. reducta'' – Africa *'' R. reptans'' – Hawaii *'' R. rigidella'' – Saint Helena *'' R. ryukyuensis'' – Japan *'' R. sanctae-helenae'' – Saint Helena *'' R. santanensis'' – Venezuela *'' R. sarahae'' – Channel Islands (California) *'' R. seawardii'' – Hong Kong *'' R. siliquosa'' *'' R. sphaerophora'' – Korea *'' R. stevensiae'' –

Norfolk Island Norfolk Island (, ; Norfuk: ''Norf'k Ailen'') is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, directly east of Australia's Evans Head and about from Lord Howe Island. Together with ...

*'' R. stoffersii'' *'' R. subdecumbens'' – South Korea *'' R. subfarinacea'' *'' R. subfraxinea'' *'' R. subrotunda'' – Hawaii *'' R. tapperii'' – East Africa *'' R. tenella'' *'' R. tenuissima'' – Venezuela *'' R. throwerae'' – Hong Kong *'' R. tovarensis'' – Venezuela *'' R. translucida'' – East Africa *'' R. tropica'' – Australia *'' R. unilateralis'' *'' R. usnea'' *'' R. whinrayi'' – Australia *'' R. wirthii'' – Azores *'' R. yokotae'' – Japan *'' R. zollingeri'' File:Ramalina farinacea1.jpg, ''Ramalina farinacea'' File:Ramalina fastigiata1.jpg, ''Ramalina fastigiata'' File:Saare-rihmsamblik.JPG, ''

Ramalina fraxinea ''Ramalina fraxinea'', the cartilage lichen, is a fruticose lichen with erect or pendulous thalli and branches that are flattened. Colour varies from pale green though yellow-grey to white-grey; apothecia are frequent and soralia may also be p ...

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Ramalina siliquosa ''Ramalina siliquosa'', also known as sea ivory, is a tufted and branched lichen which is widely found on siliceous rock (geology), rocks and stone walls on coastlands round the British Isles, occasionally slightly inland. It grows well above th ...

'' (with crustose lichen around it)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q662144 Lecanorales genera Lichen genera Taxa described in 1809 Taxa named by Erik Acharius