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Federal Protection: No US federal protection

State Protection: No Georgia state protection

Global Rank: GNR

State Rank: S1?

Element Locations Tracked in Biotics: Yes

SWAP 2015 Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN): No

SWAP 2025 Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN): No

2025 SGCN Priority Tier: None

Element Occurrences (EOs) in Georgia: 4

Habitat Summary for element in Georgia: Maritime forest, mesic hardwood forest, swamps

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Description

Green to whitish thallus continuous; hyphophores about 1 mm long, black, upright, often bent slightly once or twice to resemble a twig; white bundle of diahyphae at hyphophore tip shaped like a teardrop or candle flame; FIELD ID possible with experience & careful observation

Similar Species

None

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Maritime forest, mesic hardwood forest, swamps, on Quercus, Ilex, or Pinus bark

Life History

Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont a unicellular green alga (Trebouxia?)

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Lower Coastal Plain

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Rare

Conservation Management Recommendations

None

References

Brodo, I. M. 2016. Keys to lichens of North America: revised and expanded. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.

Esslinger, T. L. 2021. A cumulative checklist for the lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi of the continental United States and Canada. Version 24. Opuscula Philolichenum 20: 100-394.

Lücking, R., W. R. Buck & E. Rivas Plata. 2007. The lichen family Gomphillaceae (Ostropales) in eastern North America, with notes on hyphophore development in Gomphillus and Gyalideopsis. Bryologist 110: 622-672.

Authors of Account

Malcolm Hodges

Date Compiled or Updated

9 March 2022