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Ramalina sinensis
Ramalina sinensis growing on a small diameter Balsam Poplar (Populus balsamifera) trunk about a half meter from the ground in full sun on the west side. I have found this species on other woody plants in this township: Bebb's Willow (Salix bebbiana), Honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica), and Black Ash (Fraxinus nigra).
Thallus: fruticose, attached at a basal holdfast, often erect, up to 5 cm long branching: palmate or fan-shaped, undivided or composed of few branches, growing from a narrow holdfast branches: solid, flattened, broad, up to 20(-30) mm wide surface: yellowish green, longitudinally or reticulately wrinkled with elevated chondroid strands, white decorticate depressions common on lower surface, lacking soredia, isidia or pseudocyphellae cortex: thin; chondroid strands: continuous, smooth Apothecia:.. more
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