Usnea


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Synonyms for Usnea

widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus

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In the later stage of the epidemic, tree lichen (Usnea spp.), was very abundant where balsam fir mortality was high (Fig.
Las principales especies registradas con usos medicinales fueron Dysphania ambrosioides ("paico", con 18 datos); Adiantum raddianum y Verbena intermedia con 13 datos; Schinus molle (12 datos); especies de los generos Anemia y Cuscuta, Lippia turbinata y el liquen Usnea hieronymi (con 10 datos cada uno), Anemia tomentosa, Begonia cucullata, Capparis atamisquea y Larrea divaricata con 9 usos cada uno, segun se muestra en la Figura 1.
Atranorin, fumarprotocetraric acid and (+)-usnic acid were isolated from Usnea articulata as previously reported (Lohezic-Le Devehat et al., 2007).
The lichen genus Usnea (Parmeliaceae) in tropical South America: species with a pigmented medulla, reacting C+ yellow.