Usnea scabrata

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.^[1]: 214 It is warty with abundant isidia.^[1]: 214 It resembles Usnea filipendula.^[1]: 214

Usnea scabrata
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)

See also

• List of Usnea species