Usnea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Lecanorales
- Family
- Parmeliaceae
- Genus
- Usnea
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Usnea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Usnea
Usnea is a genus of fruticose lichens in the large family Parmeliaceae. The genus, which currently contains roughly 130 species, was established by Michel Adanson in 1763. Species in the genus grow like leafless mini-shrubs or tassels anchored on bark or twigs. Members of the genus are commonly called old man's beard, beard lichen, or beard moss. Usnea lichens are characterized by their shrubby growth form, elastic branches with a central cord, and distinctive soralia that produce vegetative propagules. They vary in colour from pale green to yellow-green, grey-green, reddish, or variegated, and range in size from a few millimetres in polluted areas to over three metres long in species like Usnea longissima.
Members of the genus are similar to those of the genus Alectoria. A distinguishing test is that the branches of Usnea are somewhat elastic, but the branches of Alectoria snap cleanly off. Usnea species are widely distributed across temperate and tropical regions worldwide, growing primarily on trees but occasionally on rocks, and are sensitive bioindicators of air quality, thriving only in unpolluted environments. The genus has a complex taxonomic history, with many species historically over-described due to environmental variations, though modern approaches using chemical, morphological, and molecular analyses have helped clarify relationships. Usnea lichens have been used traditionally for medicinal purposes, textile dyes, fire starters, and occasionally as emergency food, and serve important ecological roles including providing nesting material for birds.
...Usnea in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Oumansbaardkorsmosse
- Chinese
- 松蘿屬
- Czech
- Provazovka
- Danish
- Skæglaver
- Dutch
- Baardmos
- English
- beard lichens
- Estonian
- habesamblikud
- Estonian
- puuhabe
- Finnish
- Naavat
- French
- usnées
- German
- Bartflechten
- Japanese
- サルオガセ属
- Korean
- 송라속
- Latvian
- Usnejas
- Lithuanian
- Kedenė
- Polish
- Brodaczka
- Russian
- Уснея
- Swedish
- Skägglavar
- Ukrainian
- Уснея
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ahtiana
- Alectoria
- Allantoparmelia
- Allocetraria
- Anzia
- Arctocetraria
- Arctoparmelia
- Asahinea
- Austromelanelixia
- Austroparmelina
- Brodoa
- Bryocaulon
- Bryoria
- Bulborrhizina
- Bulbothrix
- Canoparmelia
- Cetraria
- Cetrariella
- Cetrelia
- Cetreliopsis
- Coelopogon
- Cornicularia
- Coronoplectrum
- Crespoa
- Dactylina
- Dolichousnea
- Emodomelanelia
- Esslingeriana
- Evernia
- Flavocetraria
- Flavoparmelia
- Flavopunctelia
- Gowardia
- Himantormia
- Hypogymnia
- Hypotrachyna
- Imshaugia
- Kaernefeltia
- Letharia
- Lethariella
- Masonhalea
- Melanelia
- Melanelixia
- Melanohalea
- Menegazzia
- Montanelia
- Myelochroa
- Nephromopsis
- Nesolechia
- Nipponoparmelia
- Nodobryoria
- Notoparmelia
- Omphalora
- Oropogon
- Pannoparmelia
- Parmelia
- Parmelina
- Parmelinella
- Parmeliopsis
- Parmotrema
- Parmotremopsis
- Phacopsis
- Platismatia
- Pleurosticta
- Protousnea
- Pseudephebe
- Pseudevernia
- Pseudoparmelia
- Psiloparmelia
- Punctelia
- Raesaenenia
- Relicina
- Remototrachyna
- Sulcaria
- Tuckermanella
- Tuckermanopsis
- Usnea
- Usnocetraria
- Vulpicida
- Xanthoparmelia
Child Taxa
- Usnea acanthella
- Usnea acanthera
- Usnea acromelana
- Usnea aculeata
- Usnea aequatoriana
- Usnea affinis
- Usnea africana
- Usnea alpina
- Usnea amabilis
- Usnea amblyoclada
- Usnea ammannii
- Usnea amplissima
- Usnea andina
- Usnea angulata
- Usnea antarctica
- Usnea arbusculiformis
- Usnea arida
- Usnea articulata
- Usnea aspera
- Usnea asteriza
- Usnea aurantiaco-atra
- Usnea aurescens
- Usnea australis
- Usnea austroafricana
- Usnea baileyi
- Usnea barbata
- Usnea bismolliuscula
- Usnea bogotensis
- Usnea bornmuelleri
- Usnea brasiliensis
- Usnea brattiae
- Usnea caespitia
- Usnea californica
- Usnea capensis
- Usnea capillacea
- Usnea capillaris
- Usnea carpatica
- Usnea cartilaginea
- Usnea catenulata
- Usnea cavernosa
- Usnea ceratina
- Usnea cervicornis
- Usnea chaetophora
- Usnea chloreoides
- Usnea ciliata
- Usnea ciliifera
- Usnea cinchonae
- Usnea cirrosa
- Usnea columbiana
- Usnea complanata
- Usnea condensata
- Usnea contexta
- Usnea contorta
- Usnea cornea
- Usnea cornuta
- Usnea crassula
- Usnea cristatula
- Usnea crocata
- Usnea cylindrica
- Usnea dasaea
- Usnea dasopoga
- Usnea deformis
- Usnea delicata
- Usnea dendritica
- Usnea densirostra
- Usnea dichroa
- Usnea dimorpha
- Usnea diplotypa
- Usnea distensa
- Usnea dodgei
- Usnea dura
- Usnea durietzii
- Usnea elata
- Usnea endochrysea
- Usnea entoviolata
- Usnea erinacea
- Usnea esperantiana
- Usnea eumitrioides
- Usnea evansii
- Usnea exasperata
- Usnea fibrillosa
- Usnea filamentosa
- Usnea flaccida
- Usnea flammea
- Usnea flavescens
- Usnea flavocardia
- Usnea flexilis
- Usnea florida
- Usnea fragilescens
- Usnea freyi
- Usnea fruticans
- Usnea fuegiana
- Usnea fulvoreagens
- Usnea furfurosula
- Usnea fusca
- Usnea fuscorubens
- Usnea galapagona
- Usnea ghattensis
- Usnea glabrata
- Usnea glabrescens
- Usnea glomerata
- Usnea goniodes
- Usnea gracilis
- Usnea graciosa
- Usnea granadensis
- Usnea halei
- Usnea havaasii
- Usnea hieronymi
- Usnea himalayana
- Usnea hirta
- Usnea hispida
- Usnea hispidula
- Usnea horrida
- Usnea incrassata
- Usnea inermis
- Usnea intermedia
- Usnea jamaicensis
- Usnea krogiana
- Usnea laevigata
- Usnea laevis
- Usnea lambii
- Usnea leioclada
- Usnea leprosa
- Usnea lesdainii
- Usnea leucosticta
- Usnea liechtensteinii
- Usnea longissima
- Usnea macaronesica
- Usnea maculata
- Usnea melaxantha
- Usnea meridionalis
- Usnea merrillii
- Usnea mexicana
- Usnea mirabilis
- Usnea molliuscula
- Usnea moniliformis
- Usnea monstruosa
- Usnea moreliana
- Usnea mutabilis
- Usnea myrmaiacaina
- Usnea nidifica
- Usnea nidulans
- Usnea nodulosa
- Usnea occidentalis
- Usnea ochrophora
- Usnea oncodes
- Usnea orientalis
- Usnea pacificana
- Usnea pallidocarpa
- Usnea parafloridana
- Usnea parvula
- Usnea pendulina
- Usnea perhispidella
- Usnea perplexans
- Usnea perspinosa
- Usnea picta
- Usnea plicata
- Usnea poliothrix
- Usnea praelonga
- Usnea praetervisa
- Usnea primitiva
- Usnea promontorii
- Usnea pseudocapillaris
- Usnea pseudocyphellata
- Usnea pulverulenta
- Usnea pulvinata
- Usnea pusilla
- Usnea quasirigida
- Usnea radiata
- Usnea ramillosa
- Usnea roccellina
- Usnea roseola
- Usnea rubicunda
- Usnea rubricornuta
- Usnea rubrotincta
- Usnea ruwenzoriana
- Usnea sanctaeritae
- Usnea sanguinea
- Usnea scabrata
- Usnea scabrida
- Usnea schadenbergiana
- Usnea scholanderi
- Usnea setulosa
- Usnea silesiaca
- Usnea silvatica
- Usnea simplicissima
- Usnea societatis
- Usnea sorediosula
- Usnea sphacelata
- Usnea spilota
- Usnea splendens
- Usnea steineri
- Usnea strigosa
- Usnea strigosa - u endochrysea
- Usnea strigosella
- Usnea subcapillaris
- Usnea subcomosa
- Usnea subcornuta
- Usnea subdasaea
- Usnea subeciliata
- Usnea subelegans
- Usnea subflorida
- Usnea subfloridana
- Usnea subfusca
- Usnea subgracilis
- Usnea subleprosa
- Usnea sublurida
- Usnea submollis
- Usnea subrubicunda
- Usnea subscabrosa
- Usnea sulcata
- Usnea sulphurea
- Usnea tenerior
- Usnea tenuis
- Usnea torquescens
- Usnea torulosa
- Usnea trachycarpa
- Usnea transitoria
- Usnea trichina
- Usnea trichodea
- Usnea trichodeoides
- Usnea tristis
- Usnea undulata
- Usnea vainioi
- Usnea variegata
- Usnea wasmuthii
- Usnea welwitschiana
- Usnea xanthophana
- Usnea xanthopoga
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