Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
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Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz (1926)
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
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Nomenclature
(Nyl.) Du Rietz
Nyl.
Du Rietz
1926
91
ICN
species
Usnea ciliata
Classification
Subordinates
Synonyms
Descriptions
Thallus fruticose, erect, tufted to spreading, to 9 cm tall. Branches 2-3 mm wide at base, weakly dichotomously to richly branching above. Surface yellow to brown-red at base, often with black cracks, becoming conspicuously blackened or yellow-grey or bluish-purple above with conspicuous black bands, not papillate or sorediate, smooth, waxy and shining, often ± strongly faveolate. Apothecia frequent, lateral on branches, disc bluish-black, margins smooth, concolorous with thallus, with ray-like branchlets, black, few to many, thalline exciple smooth. Chemistry: Cortex K-; medulla K+ yellow-red, C-, KC+ red, Pd+ orange-red. Norstictic, ± protocetraric, salazinic and usnic acids.
Taxonomic concepts
Neuropogon ciliatus (Nyl.) Kremp.
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
Neuropogon melaxanthus var. ciliatus Nyl.
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
Usnea melaxantha var. ciliata (Nyl.) Müll.Arg.
Usnea ciliata (Nyl.) Du Rietz
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1 December 2004
15 February 2016