| Name | Usnea elegans Stirton |
| Authorship | Stirton |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Usnea Dillenius ex Adanson |
| Citation | 1880 Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 17: 68 |
| Holdings | 1 Specimen held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Usnea elegans Stirton |
| Identification made in | [no date] (1) |