Fungalpedia – Note 1793, Ramalinaceae
Ramalinaceae C. Agardh
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Lecanorales, Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
The family was introduced by Agardh (1821). Taxa are lichenized or rarely lichenicolous and characterised by crustose or squamulose to fruticose thallus with chlorococcoid photobiont, apothecial ascomata, hamathecium consisting of often branched paraphyses, 8-spored, semifissitunicate, amyloid asci and ellipsoid to oblong or cylindrical, hyaline ascospores (Jaklitsch et al. 2016).
Type genus: Ramalina Ach., in Luyken, Tentam. Histor. Lichen. Gen. Prim. Lin. Distrib. nov., Göttingae: 95 (1809).
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