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Ramalina stoffersii Sipman
Nomenclature
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Family: RamalinaceaeGenus: Ramalina
SUMMARY
Mycobank MB 517809
Thallus pale yellowish green, 3–10 cm high, forming ca. 3–20 cm wide, rather intricate, subpendulous cushions; prothallus spreading and giving rise to swarms of thallus lobes, but often decayed and the thallus attached by secondary attachment spots on the thallus lobes; thallus lobes linear, rather regularly dichotomously branched up to over 10 times over their whole length, applanate, ca. 1–2 mm wide and ca. 0.3 mm thick, with flat to slightly convex sides, rarely in part canaliculate or subcylindrical; pseudocyphellae present, linear, mainly on the lobe margins and there to over 1 cm long and causing the lobes to become rectangular in section, also frequent on the sides but there shorter and rarely over 2 mm long; lobe upper parts and tips sometimes with minute lobules, often densely branched, about 0.1 mm wide, to over 1 mm long, with hooked tips; soralia present, marginal, farinose, rounded to elongate, ca. 0.2–0.5 mm in diam., sometimes warty, with ca. 50 µm wide soredia. Apothecia and pycnidia unknown. Secondary chemistry: usnic and divaricatic acids.