Sticta limbata - Common Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest

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Sticta limbata

Overview
PNW Range:
West side	Occasional
East side	None
Immediate coast	Occasional
Alpine or subalpine	None
Habitat:	Fairly common in warm, moist, low-elevation forests, especially valley and foothill hardwoods such as ash swamps and oak forests. Sporadic in mountain conifer forests.
Substrate:	Bark and wood, rarely rock.
Comments:
Synonymy:	none

Sticta limbata - Habit

Habit

Growth Form
Fruticose:	Never
Foliose:	Almost always
Crustose:	Never
Appressed Foliose:	Commonly
Fluffy Foliose or Strappy:	Sometimes
Dangling Hair:	Never
Erect Hair:	Never
Appressed Hair:	Never
Stalks With Squamules:	Never
Stalks:	Never
Squamules:	Never
Single Holdfast:	Sometimes
Dangling Nets:	Never
Lobe Width (mm):	10 (± 5)

Upper Surface
Upper Surface Color (Dry)
Pale Gray:	Commonly
Dark Gray:	Commonly
Olive Brown:	Sometimes
Olive Green:	Sometimes
Brown:	Almost always
Tan:	Almost always
Upper Surface Tomentose:	Never
Upper Surface Pruinose or Scabrid:	Never
Upper Surface with Network of Ridges:	Never
Upper Surface with Pseudocyphellae:	Never
Upper Surface with Holes into Cavity:	Never
Cilia on Margins:	Never

Lower Surface (Foliose)
Lower Surface Color (Dry)
Whitish:	Rarely
Brown:	Almost always
Tan:	Almost always
Veined Below:	Never
Rhizinate Below:	Never
Tomentose Below:	Almost always
Cyphellae:	Almost always
Pseudocyphellae Below:	Never
Papillae Below:	Never

Interior
Inside (Medulla) Yellow or Orange:	Never
Central Cord:	Never
Hollow Stalks or Hollow Lobes:	Never
Gelatinous:	Never

Photobiont
Green Algae Primary Photobiont:	Never
Cyanobacteria Primary Photobiont:	Almost always
Internal Cephalodia:	Never
External Cephalodia:	Never

Sexual Reproduction
Perithecia:	Never
Apothecia:	Never
Mazaedium:	Never
Disk Color (Dry)
Disk Brown or Tan:	Almost always

Asexual Reproduction
Isidia:	Never
Soredia:	Almost always
Lobules:	Never