Usnea mutabilis

Usnea mutabilis
In Delmarva
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Usnea
Species:
U. mutabilis
Binomial name
Usnea mutabilis
Stirt. (1881)

Usnea mutabilis is a grayish-yellowish pale green, unequally branching, shrubby (fruticose) 3–7 cm long lichen commonly anchored on holdfasts on trees, mostly in eastern North America, sometimes in chaparral shrubs or pines in California.[1]: 212  It is darker green than other members of the genus Usnea.[1]: 212  The surface is covered with isolated, or clusters of, isidia.[1]: 212  It lacks apothecia.[1]: 212 

The common name is bloody beard lichen.[1]: 212  The thick axis and medulla are dull red.[1]: 212 

See also

References

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


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