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Ramonia
Ramonia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Gyalectaceae. Species form thin crusts on bark or rock and partner with the green alga Trentepohlia as their photosynthetic partner. They are recognized by their distinctive urn-shaped apothecia (fruiting bodies), whose inrolled rims nearly close over the spore-producing surface, leaving only a small central pore. About 22 species are accepted, found mainly in tropical and temperate regions.
19 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Bark Stars
speciesRamonia microspora
Ramonia chrysophaea
speciesRamonia chrysophaea

Ramonia interjecta
speciesRamonia interjecta
Ramonia dictyospora
speciesRamonia dictyospora
Ramonia malmei
speciesRamonia malmei
Ramonia rappii
speciesRamonia rappii

Ramonia valenzueliana
speciesRamonia valenzueliana
Ramonia athallina
speciesRamonia athallina
Ramonia absconsa
speciesRamonia absconsa
Ramonia calcicola
speciesRamonia calcicola
Ramonia azorica
speciesRamonia azorica
Ramonia ablephora
speciesRamonia ablephora
Ramonia cupellina
speciesRamonia cupellina
Ramonia gyalectiformis
speciesRamonia gyalectiformis
Ramonia vermispora
speciesRamonia vermispora
Ramonia extensa
speciesRamonia extensa
Ramonia subsphaeroides
speciesRamonia subsphaeroides
Ramonia nigra
speciesRamonia nigra
Ramonia luteola
speciesRamonia luteola
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.364

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.693

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.638

A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.466

Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.163
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 175103.