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Ramalina hyrcana Sipman
Nomenclature
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Family: RamalinaceaeGenus: Ramalina
SUMMARY
Mycobank MB 517808
Thallus forming bushy cushions 1–4 cm thick, densely and often dichotomously branched from a simple base into strap-shaped, 0.2–1 mm wide lobes; lobes flat with rounded margin, surface sometimes slightly striate; pseudocyphellae absent; often with tiny, 0.5–1 mm long and ca. 0.1 mm wide, fragile branchlets with hooked tip, mainly towards the lobe tips, sometimes also on the soralia; soralia present, mainly marginal, round to elongate with somewhat raised thalline rim, to ca. 0.5 x 0.2 mm in size, the larger ones turned downward so that the soredia are mainly produced on the underside of ± horizontal lobes. Apothecia and pycnidia unknown. Secondary chemistry: usnic acid (trace, cortical), sekikaic acid with traces of related substances (medullary).