Preliminary version 1 June 2012
Ramalina sprengelii Krog & Swinscow
Norw. J. Bot. 23: 172 (1976).
Synonym: Index Fungorum
Type:
Thallus: longly pendulous, irregularly branched. Branches subparallel, solid, flattened, to 1 mm wide, becoming terete and capillaceous in distal parts, colour yellowish grey with a narrow blackened zone at the base. Cortex glossy, turning a reddish brown in the herbarium, pseudocyphellae linear, marginal and in part laminal. Soredia absent. Apothecia lateral, substipitate, to 0.8 mm diameter. Spores straight, 15 - 17 / 4 - 5 µm (Swinscow & Krog 1988: 288).
Chemistry: Usnic acid in the cortex. No medullary substances (Swinscow & Krog 1988: 288).
Ecology: Corticolous, probably mainly in montane forest at 2000 to 3000 met altitude, rare (Swinscow & Krog 1988: 288)
Molecular data: Genbank
Distribution: Africa. Database
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