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Ramalina menziesii Taylor
- Scientific name
- Ramalina menziesii
- Author
- Taylor
- Common names
Lace lichen- IUCN Specialist Group
Lichens- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Lecanorales
- Family
- Ramalinaceae
- Assessment status
- Proposed
- Proposed by
- Rikke Reese Næsborg
- Comments etc.
- Rikke Reese Næsborg
Assessment Notes
Taxonomic notes
Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?
Ramalina menziesii is common and locally abundant in coastal western North America. It does not qualify for any threat category. It should be listed as Least Concern.
Geographic range
Ramalina menziesii is distributed across coastal western North America where it spans the temperate and boreal zones in the north to the Mediterranean zones in California to the subtropical zone of Baja California in Mexico (Rundel 1974; Sork & Werth 2014).
EOO = 1,998,718.927 km2 (LC)
AOO = 2,120.000 km2 (NT)
Population and Trends
Ramalina menziesii is endemic to western North America. It is common and abundant on a number of different phorophytes (Rundel 1974; Sork & Werth 2014); therefore the population size is inferred to be stable.
Population Trend: Stable
Habitat and Ecology
Ramalina menziesii is an epiphytic, fruticose lichen characterized by an intricate netted structure of the thallus. Typical substrates include Abies grandis, Picea sitchensis, Quercus lobata, Q. douglasii, Idria columnaris, and Pachycormus discolor (Rundel 1974).
Threats
No significant threats identified.
Conservation Actions
Research needed
Use and Trade
The Kashaya Pomo people of Northern California used Ramalina menziesii as sanitary material, and the Kawaiisu people used lace lichen, which they knew as paaziiomỏora for its magical properties (Villella 2016; Zigmond 1977).
