Biology:Usnea scabrata

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Short description: Species of lichen

Usnea scabrata
In West Butte, Sweet Grass Hills, Montana, USA

Secure (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Usnea
Species:
U. scabrata
Binomial name
Usnea scabrata
Nyl. (1875)

Usnea scabrata, the straw beard lichen, is a pale grayish-yellowish green, slender, pendant, branching from the base, unequally branching, shrubby fruticose lichen that grows from holdfasts on trees.[2]: 214  It is warty with abundant isidia.[2]: 214  It resembles Usnea filipendula.[2]: 214 

See also

  • List of Usnea species

References

  1. NatureServe. "Usnea scabrata" (in en). Arlington, Virginia. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1047731/. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2

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