Ramalinaceae Ramalina fastigiata Growth type fruticose. Chemical results negative Common and widespread on well-lit, nutrient-rich bark. The tufted, erect, grey-green thallus has many wrinkled and often +/- swollen lobes. Lobes can be variable, branched, wrinkled, rounded or flattened and sometimes +/- distorted. Usually very fertile with creamy-white apical apothecia. Spores colourless, 1-septate, 12-15 x 5-7 µm. Micrograph below. Sometimes host to Didymocyrtis ramalinae, Lichenoconium usneae and Tremella tuckerae Similar: Ramalina calicaris and Ramalina canariensis

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Ramalina fastigiata
March 2012, February 2020, November 2023