Usnea scabrata
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| Usnea scabrata | |
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| In West Butte, Sweet Grass Hills, Montana, USA | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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.[2]: 214 It is warty with abundant isidia.[2]: 214 It resembles Usnea filipendula.[2]: 214
