- 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
-
Published
- Assessment date
- 2021-12-20
- IUCN Red List Category
-
LC
- Assessors
- Reese Næsborg, R.
- Reviewers
- Allen, J.
Assessment Notes
Justification
Ramalina menziesii is common and locally abundant in coastal western North America. It does not qualify for any threat category. It is 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 and Werth 2014).
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 and 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,
Fouquieria columnaris, and
Pachycormus discolor (Rundel 1974).
Threats
No significant threats have been identified.
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 (Zigmond 1977, Villella 2016).
Source and Citation
Reese Næsborg, R. 2022. Ramalina menziesii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T213314289A213315130.
https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T213314289A213315130.en .Accessed on 4 August 2024