Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Ramalina peruviana
ramalina, Ramalina
Because of its thin branches and a similar habitus, R. peruviana could be mistaken for R. sorediosa. Though equally thin, the branches of R. peruviana are, however, irregularly angular to indistinctly flattened, and never terete. Most diagnostic are the fine isidiate branchlets, that develop from the soralia and are also typically present at the tip of thallus branches, of R. peruviana. These branchlets cannot be observed in R. sorediosa.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Lecanorales
Family
Ramalinaceae
Genus
Ramalina
Species
peruviana
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: A pantropical species first reported from the Galapagos by Weber (1986); mostly corticolous, mostly inland.
- Aptroot, A. Bungartz, F. (2007) The Lichen Genus Ramalina on the Galapagos. The Lichenologist 39: 519-542.
- Elix, J.A. McCarthy, P.M. (1998) Catalogue of the Lichens of the Smaller Pacific Islands. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 70, J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart, 361pp.
- Weber, W.A. (1981) Lichenes Exsiccati, distributed by the University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, Fasc. 1-15, nos. 1-600, 1961-1979. Mycotaxon 13(1): 85-104.
- Weber, W.A. (1986) The Lichen Flora of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Mycotaxon 27: 451-497.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Ramalina peruviana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=3324. Accessed 13 June 2026.