Usnea intermedia, the western bushy beard, is a grayish-yellowish pale green, irregularly much-branching, stiff shrubby fruticose lichen commonly anchored on holdfasts on trees, often on oaks.[1]: 201  Abundant apothecia are convex discs with a ring or thallus-like margin having tendril-like fringe radiating from it.[1]: 201  It was formerly called U. arizonica in North America.[1]: 201 

Usnea intermedia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Usnea
Species:
U. intermedia
Binomial name
Usnea intermedia
(A.Massal.) Jatta (1909)
Synonyms
  • Usnea barbata var. intermedia A.Massal. (1856)

References

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