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.

[1]: 201  Abundant apothecia are convex discs with a ring or thallus-like margin having tendril-like fringe radiating from it.

[1]: 201  It was formerly called U. arizonica in North America.

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