title: Usnea intermedia
text: # Usnea intermedia
  
  Usnea intermedia, the western bushy beard, is a grayish-yellowish pale green, irregularly much-branching, stiff shrubby fruticose lichen commonly anchored on holdfasts on trees, often on $oaks.^{:201}$ Abundant apothecia are convex discs with a ring or thallus-like margin having tendril-like fringe radiating from $it.^{:201}$ It was formerly called U. arizonica in North $America.^{:201}$
  
  