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Arizona Beard Lichen
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Arizona Beard Lichen

Usnea intermedia

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

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