''Ramboldia'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

lichen A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), m ...

-forming

fungi A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one ...

in the family Ramboldiaceae. The genus was

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in 1994 by

Gintaras Kantvilas Gintaras Kantvilas (born 1956) is an Australian lichenologist, who earned his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Tasmania with a thesis entitled ''Studies on Tasmanian rainforest lichens''. He has authored over 432 species names, and 167 gene ...

and

John Alan Elix John Alan (Jack) Elix (born 1941) emeritus professor in chemistry at the Australian National University, is an organic chemist who has contributed in many fields: lichenology, lichen chemotaxonomy, plant physiology and biodiversity and natural ...

. It was emended in 2008 by the inclusion of '' Pyrrhospora'' species containing the

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russulone in their

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and having a prosoplectenchymatous exciple. The family Ramboldiaceae was

in 2014 to contain the genus. The genus name of ''Ramboldia'' is in honour of Gerhard Walter Rambold (b.1956), a German

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(Lichenology and Mycology). He was also interested in

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and was a professor at

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and

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. He was a colleague of the authors, Kantvilas and Elix.

Species

*'' Ramboldia amagiensis'' *'' Ramboldia amarkantakana'' *'' Ramboldia arandensis'' *'' Ramboldia atromarginata'' *'' Ramboldia aurantiaca'' *'' Ramboldia aurea'' *'' Ramboldia badia'' – Brazil *'' Ramboldia blastidiata'' *''

Ramboldia blochiana ''Ramboldia blochiana'' is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Ramboldiaceae. The species is characterized by a thallus and shares chemical and morphological characteristics with the widespread '' Ramboldia ...

'' – North America, Central America, South America, West Indies *'' Ramboldia brunneocarpa'' *'' Ramboldia buleensis'' *'' Ramboldia bullata'' *'' Ramboldia canadensis'' *'' Ramboldia cinnabarina'' *'' Ramboldia crassithallina'' *'' Ramboldia curvispora'' *'' Ramboldia elabens'' *'' Ramboldia farinosa'' *'' Ramboldia gowardiana'' *'' Ramboldia greeniana'' *'' Ramboldia griseococcinea'' *'' Ramboldia haematites'' *'' Ramboldia heterocarpa'' *'' Ramboldia insidiosa'' *'' Ramboldia laeta'' *'' Ramboldia lusitanica'' *'' Ramboldia manipurensis'' *'' Ramboldia neolaeta'' *''

Ramboldia oxalifera ''Ramboldia'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Ramboldiaceae. The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 1994 by Gintaras Kantvilas and John Alan Elix. It was Emendation (zoology), emended in 2008 by the inclusion ...

'' *'' Ramboldia petraeoides'' *'' Ramboldia plicatula'' *'' Ramboldia quaesitica'' *'' Ramboldia russula'' *'' Ramboldia sanguinolenta'' *'' Ramboldia siamensis'' *'' Ramboldia sorediata'' *'' Ramboldia stuartii'' *'' Ramboldia subcinnabarina'' *'' Ramboldia subnexa'' *'' Ramboldia subplicatula''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7289258 Lecanorales Lecanorales genera Taxa named by Gintaras Kantvilas Taxa named by John Alan Elix Taxa described in 1994