Description ³

 Thallus: fruticose, shrubby or subpendulous, up to 7(15) cm long; branching: sparingly and dichotomously branched from a narrow holdfast; branches: solid, plane or +canaliculate, up to 3(-5) mm wide; surface: greenish gray to greenish yellow, lacunose, shiny, sorediate; soralia: marginal, rarely laminal, marginal soralia erupting in cracks between upper and lower cortices; pseudocyphellae: laminal or rarely marginal, ellipsoid or short linear near the base of laciniae, flat to +depressed; cortex: thin; chondroid strands: continuous, smooth, never forming bundles of hyphae; Apothecia: not seen; Pycnidia: not observed; Spot tests: cortex K-, C-, KC+ yellow, P-; medulla K-, C-, KC-, P-; Secondary metabolites: cortex with usnic acid (minor); medulla with zeorin (±trace).; Substrate and ecology: on bark; World and Sonoran distribution: southern California, Baja California, and Baja California Sur.; Notes: Ramalina subleptocarpha is a sorediate counterpart of R. leptocarpha. It might be confused with R. farinacea that differs in having flat laciniae, +cracked chondroid strands and in producing depsidones such as protocetraric or norstictic acids. 

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1. (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/ken-ichi/8435057502/
2. (c) CALS, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by CALS
3. (c) Lichen Unlimited: Arizona State University, Tempe., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/10548683

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