Niebla isidiosa  Niebla isidiosa is a fruticose lichen known only from Guadalupe Island. The epithet, " isidiosa" is in reference to isidia (isidium) on the thallus. "Niebla isidiosa" is characterized by a rigid thallus divided into irregularly widened branches, to 5 cm long and 5 cm across, by its development of dense isidia along the reticulate ridges of the cortex, by containing divaricatic acid, and by the absence of pycnidia. The irregular widened branches are similar to "Niebla caespitosa", which not only lacks isidia, but also has a thinner cortex, 45–75 μm thick, in contrast to 100–150 μm thick in "N. isidiosa". The thicker cortex of "N. isidiosa"—along with its reticulate ridging—is much like that of "Niebla testudinaria", 100–150 μm thick; it also lacks isidia. Another similar species, "Niebla sorediata", which has a relatively thin cortex, 30–40 μm thick, differs by the granular appearance of the isidia that become sorediate (soredium). "Niebla isidiosa" was probably derived from "N. testudinaria", which also occurs on Guadalupe Island. "Niebla isidiosa" was collected by Edward Palmer on Guadalupe Island during Feb to May 1875. Heber Howe, Jr., in a taxonomic revision of the genus "Ramalina", in 1913. noted that a manuscript name—"R. homalea" f. "isidiosa" by Henry Willey on the specimen collected by Palmer—that it represented a "contingent phase of "R. homalea"." The epithet was adopted by Richard Spjut who also designated the Palmer specimen as holotype (biology) for a new species in his revision of the genus "Niebla". Another isidiate species, "Niebla isidiaescens", described by Peter Bowler and collaborators in 1994, based on a type specimen from the southern state of Baja California, differs by the flagelliform (flagellum)branches with a cortex 45–75 μm thick, generally becoming thinner towards apex as in "N. flagelliforma".