🍄 Family

Parmeliaceae

104 species · Fungi

Fungi › Ascomycota › Lecanoromycetes › Lecanorales › Parmeliaceae

Usnea rubicunda Stirt.

Usnea rubicunda, the red beard lichen, is a orange-red hanging arboreal lichen native to multiple temperate regions worldwide.

Dolichousnea longissima (Ach.) Articus

Dolichousnea longissima is the world's longest lichen, found across boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere and used for decoration and medicine.

Usnea trichodea Ach.

Usnea trichodea is a hanging tree lichen of eastern North America used as an air pollution indicator and roosted in by tricolored bats.

Usnea hirta (L.) F.H.Wigg.

Usnea hirta is a widely distributed, morphologically variable beard lichen often used as a sulphur dioxide biomonitor.

Usnea intermedia (A.Massal.) Jatta

Usnea intermedia, the western bushy beard, is a stiff shrubby fruticose lichen often found growing on oak trees.

Usnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.

Usnea florida is an upright fruticose lichen with documented populations across parts of Europe.

Usnea mutabilis Stirton

Bloody beard lichen (Usnea mutabilis) is a dull red medulla shrubby lichen found mostly in eastern North America.

Usnea scabrida Taylor

Usnea scabrida Taylor is a pendant foliose lichen found across Australia and beyond, described in 1844 by Thomas Taylor.

Usnea articulata (L.) Hoffm.

Usnea articulata is a pollution-sensitive fruticose bush-like lichen that reproduces mainly by thallus fragmentation, with a sparse distribution across parts of Europe, Africa, and Saudi Arabia.

Usnea strigosa (Ach.) A.Eaton

Usnea strigosa is a common fruticose tree lichen with worldwide distribution that hosts green algal photosynthetic symbionts.

Punctelia subrudecta (Nyl.) Krog

Punctelia subrudecta is a foliose lichen native primarily to the Old World, found mostly on tree bark in low-pollution temperate and Mediterranean woodlands.

Punctelia stictica (Delise ex Daby) Krog

Punctelia stictica is a widely distributed antitropical lichen with distinctive morphological and chemical traits.

Punctelia rudecta (Ach.) Krog

Punctelia rudecta is a common, widespread North American foliose lichen that grows on bark or shaded rock.

Punctelia appalachensis (Culb.) Krog

Punctelia appalachensis, the Appalachian speckled shield lichen, is a foliose lichen found in eastern North America.

Punctelia bolliana (Müll.Arg.) Krog

Punctelia bolliana is a foliose lichen found in North America and Mexico, growing on tree bark in open woodlands.

Punctelia borreri (Sm.) Krog

Punctelia borreri is a widely distributed foliose lichen that grows mostly on bark, with human uses in traditional medicine and research.

Punctelia caseana Lendemer & B.P.Hodk.

Punctelia caseana is a foliose lichen found in eastern US and eastern/central Mexico, growing on trees and rotting logs.

Punctelia missouriensis Wilhelm & Ladd

Punctelia missouriensis, the mealy speckled shield lichen, is a foliose lichen found in the southeastern United States growing on bark and rocks.

Flavopunctelia flaventior (Stirt.) Hale

Flavopunctelia flaventior is a foliose speckled greenshield lichen found across multiple continents.

Flavopunctelia soredica (Nyl.) Hale

Flavopunctelia soredica, the powder-edged speckled greenshield, is a widely distributed foliose lichen in Parmeliaceae.

Melanelia hepatizon (Ach.) A.Thell

Melanelia hepatizon is a circumpolar lichen that grows on siliceous rocks across cold alpine, arctic, and boreal habitats.

Melanelia stygia (L.) Essl.

Melanelia stygia is a dark, slow-growing circumpolar arctic-alpine foliose lichen that can be used to dye wool tan to brown.

Parmotrema crinitum (Ach.) M.Choisy

Parmotrema crinitum, the salted ruffle lichen, is a bark-dwelling foliose lichen in Parmeliaceae, first described in 1814.

Parmotrema reticulatum (Taylor) M.Choisy

Parmotrema reticulatum is a widely distributed foliose lichen used in traditional medicine and studied for breast cancer treatment.

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Cladoniaceae 50 species Ramalinaceae 15 species Lecanoraceae 11 species Stereocaulaceae 4 species Sphaerophoraceae 2 species Byssolomataceae 1 species Psilolechiaceae 1 species Psoraceae 1 species

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