Ramalina sinensis

A fruticose lichen with lobes up to 5 cm long, yellowish green, with a whitish lower side, bearing disc-shaped apothecia at the branch tips 3 to 8 mm in diameter.

Asci cylindrical to clavate, eight-spored, 35 to 50 µm long, 9 to 14 µm wide, with biseriate to irregular spore arrangement within the ascus, and an amyloid apical apparatus in Melzer's reagent.

Paraphyses filiform, septate, hyaline, 1.5 to 2 µm wide, with abundant apical branches, apices enlarged up to 4 to 5 µm, projecting slightly above the asci.

Ascospores cylindrical-ellipsoidal to allantoid, smooth, hyaline, moderately thick-walled, with a central septum, 12 to 20 µm long, 5 to 7.5 µm wide, containing two large oil droplets (one in each cell) and other smaller guttules of varying size inside.