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Ramalina roesleri (Hochst. ex Schaerer) Hue  
Family: Ramalinaceae
[Fistulariella roesleri (Hochst. ex Schaer.) Bowler & Rundel]
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Stephen Sharnoff  
Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like thallus: continuous, diffuse, effuse [th] upper surface: grey(ish) green [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: present [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: absent [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: absent [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: present [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: smooth, plane [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): irregular ascomata: absent conidiomata: absent | present conidia: bacilliform, bacillar secondary metabolites: present secondary metabolites: sekikaic acid primary photobiont: present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.

substrate: bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs.
Ramalina roesleri image
Lucy Taylor  
Ramalina roesleri image
Stephen Sharnoff  
Ramalina roesleri image
Stephen Sharnoff  
Ramalina roesleri image
Stephen Sharnoff  
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