Description: This is a gritty-textured trailing species which hangs like streamers of old bootlaces from old established trees. The core of each branch has a pinkish tinge with the medulla testing K-, Pd-, and C+ yellow-orange. The hanging portion of the thallus is spotted with coarse white swellings which burst to release granular soralia. In Ireland, the species is thinly distributed.

Key Identification Features:

• Pendulous, coarse to the touch; branches with a pale pink centre and C+ yellow-orange reaction
• Soralia granular giving the cortex a roughened appearance.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

Distribution Map from NBN: Usnea ceratina at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Usnea ceratina at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.