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Usnea scabrata

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Species of lichen

Usnea scabrata
In West Butte, Sweet Grass Hills, Montana, USA
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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. It is warty with abundant isidia. It resembles Usnea filipendula.

References

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


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