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

Usnea scabrata
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U. scabrata
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Usnea scabrata

References

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