Usnea

Usnea Dill. ex Adans. Index Fungorum number: IF 5692; Mycobank number: MB 5692 Notes – The genus Usnea forms a strong supported clade (named “usneoid”) within the phylogeny of Parmeliaceae (Crespo et al. 2007) sister to Cornicularia normoerica (Divakar et al. 2015). Usnea is a fruticose lichen genus easily recognized by its thallus branches with [...]

Usnea kriegeriana A. Gerlach & P. Clerc, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF 900342; Mycobank number: MB 900342; Facesoffungi number: FoF 14476; Fig. 1 Etymology – In honor of the Brazilian Priest Leopoldo Krieger, retired botany teacher of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil), who collected many Usnea specimens chiefly in the south [...]