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Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories
     
Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References
     
     
Usnea hossei var. protocetrarica G.N.Stevens
     
  Biblioth. Lichenol. 72: 50 (1999). T: Davies Creek road, E of Mareeba, Qld, 7 July 1983, M.E.Hale 64155; holo: US.  
     
  As var. hossei, but... Chemistry: Cortex containing usnic acid. Medulla K–; containing protocetraric acid (major) and conprotocetraric acid (minor).
     
  This variety is rare in rainforest in north-eastern Qld. Also in Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Fiji.  
     
   
     
     
  Stevens (2004)  

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