Usnea scabrata

Usnea scabrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Usnea
Species: U. scabrata
Binomial name
Usnea scabrata

Usnea scabrata (straw beard lichen) is a very pale grayish-yellowish green, slender, pendant, branching from the base, unequally branching, shrubby foliose lichen that grows from holdfasts on trees.[1]:214 It is warty with abundant isidia.[1]:214 It resembles Usnea filipendula.[1]:214

References

  1. 1 2 3 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
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