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Ramulous cladonia (With.) J.R. Laundon (1984), is a species of lichene belonging to the Cladoniaceae family, of the Lecanorales order.

The name derives from the Latin ramulosus, which means branchy, with dense ramifications, to indicate the structure of the apothetics.

Description
The reproductive system is mainly asexisted, through sores or similar structures, such as blasting. The photobionte is mainly a green algae of Trentepohlia.

Distribution and habitat
This species is especially suitable for temperate or southern mountain-boreal climates. Reinforced on epilitic briofitis, rotting woods and organic soils. Predilige a substrate pH from a lot of acid to intermediate values between very acid and pure subneutro. The need for moisture ranges from hygrophytic to mesophytic.

The species was found in the following locations:
USA (Florida, Alabama, New Jersey, District of Columbia, Michigan, Maine, Ohio, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Hawaii, Vermont, New York (state), South Carolina, Illinois);
Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Mecklenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Hesse, Brandenburg, Bavaria, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Thuringia, Hamburg);
Austria (High Austria);
Brazil (Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul);
Spain (Castiglia e León);
Canada (New Brunswick);
Australia (New South Wales);
Oceania (Figi);
India (Tamil Nadu);
China (Anhui, Tibet, Fujian, Heilongjiang, Hubei, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Jilin, Shaanxi, Shanghai, Xianggang, Xizang, Zhejiang);
Iran (Mazandaran);
Argentina, Bhutan, Chile, Cyprus, South Korea, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, Japan, Great Britain, Guyana, Hong Kong, Ireland, Iceland, Easter Island, Azores Islands, Kenya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, Norway, Netherlands, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, Sant'Elena, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela.

In Italy this species of Cladonia is quite rare:
Trentino-Alto Adige, from rare to extremely rare in the valleys
Val d'Aosta, from rare to extremely rare in the valleys
Piedmont, quite rare on the mountains of the Alps, extremely rare in the rest of the region
Lombardy, quite rare in the Alpine and border areas with Trentino; extremely rare in the pedestrian areas
Veneto, from rare to extremely rare in mountain and pedestrian areas on the border with Trentino
Friuli, was not found
Emilia-Romagna, was not found
Liguria, from rare along the eastern Ligurian arch to extremely rare along the western arc
Tuscany, very rare throughout the region
Umbria, was not found
Marche, was not found
Lazio, very rare throughout the region
Abruzzi, was not found
Molise, was not found
Campania, extremely rare in the avellinese and in the beneventano, very rare in