Ramonia Explained

Ramonia is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Gyalectaceae. It contains 24 species. The genus was circumscribed by Ernst Stizenberger in 1862.

The genus name of Ramonia is in honour of Ramón Dionisio José de la Sagra (1798–1871), who was a Spanish anarchist, politician, writer, and botanist who founded the world's first anarchist journal, El Porvenir (Spanish for "The Future").^[1]

Species

• Ramonia athallina
• Ramonia calcicola
• Ramonia chrysophaea
• Ramonia cupellina
• Ramonia dictyospora
• Ramonia elixii
• Ramonia elongata
• Ramonia eungellae
• Ramonia extensa
• Ramonia himelbrantii
• Ramonia leptospora
• Ramonia melathelia
• Ramonia microspora
• Ramonia minima
• Ramonia nepalensis
• Ramonia nigra
• Ramonia subantarctica
• Ramonia valenzueliana
• Ramonia variespora
• Ramonia vermispora
• Ramonia xylophila

Notes and References

1. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . 246307410 . January 27, 2022.