Ramalea Nyl.
Details
Ramalea Nyl. (1866)
Ramalea Nyl.
Biostatus
Absent
New Zealand
Political Region
Hammer placed Ramalea cochleata Müll.Arg. in a new, Notocladonia, genus within the Cladoniaceae, and stated that the remaining species currently recognised withing Ramalea should be excluded from theCladoniaceae.
Nomenclature
Nyl.
Nyl.
1866
ICN
genus
Ramalea
Classification
Subordinates
Descriptions
Ramalea Nyl.
Thallus dimorphic. Primary thallus squamulose to ± foliose, lobate, squamules 1-5 mm diam., scattered or ± imbricate, ± ascending at margins or adnate. Upper surface corticate, smooth, ± convex to plane, matt, olivaceous, glaucescent, yellowish or brownish. Photobiont green, . Medulla white. Lower surface white or pale brownish, ecorticate, slightly tomentose-arachnoid, anchored to substrate by medullary hyphae. Pseudopodetia ± erect or decumbent, to 15 mm tall, developing from margins of squamules, ± terete near base, becoming ± laterally compressed above, cortex continuous, ridged-striate, occasionally fissured or ± clathrate near apices exposing medullary hyphae, ± solid at base, ± fistulose towards apices. Apothecia terminal or subterminal, rarely lateral on pseudopodetia, clustered-peltate, disc plane to convex, marginate. Epithecium granular, yellowish-brown. Hymenium colourless, 2-45 µm tall. Asci clavate, 8-spored. Ascospores simple, colourless, ellipsoid. Pycnidia marginal on squamules, black, bottle-shaped, minute.
Taxonomic concepts
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000