''Ramalina'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of greenish

fruticose A fruticose lichen is a form of lichen fungi that is characterized by a coral-like shrubby or bushy growth structure. It is formed from a symbiotic relationship of a photobiont such as green algae or less commonly cyanobacteria and one, two or m ...

lichens that grow in the form of flattened, strap-like branches. Members of the genus are commonly called strap lichensField Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, or cartilage lichens.

Apothecia An ascocarp, or ascoma (), is the fruiting body ( sporocarp) of an ascomycete phylum fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and millions of embedded asci, each of which typically contains four to eight ascospores. Ascocarps are mo ...

are

lecanorine A lichen has lecanorine fruiting body parts if they are shaped like a plate with a ring around them, and that ring is made of tissue similar to the main non-fruiting body part of the lichen.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale ...

. Lichen spot tests 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'' –

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*'' 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 consti ...

*'' R. glaucescens'' *'' R. gloriosensis'' – Scattered Islands *'' 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 Mo ...

*'' 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) The Channel Islands () are an eight-island archipelago located within the Southern California Bight in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California. The four Northern Channel Islands are part of the Transverse Ranges geologic province, and ...

*'' 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 w ...

*'' 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 ...

'' File:A lichen - Ramalina siliquosa - geograph.org.uk - 933106.jpg, '' Ramalina siliquosa'' (with crustose lichen around it)

References

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