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Federal Protection: No US federal protection

State Protection: No Georgia state protection

Global Rank: GNR

State Rank: SNR

Element Locations Tracked in Biotics: No

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: 0

Habitat Summary for element in Georgia: Mixed pine ? hardwood forest, maritime forest

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Description

Gray, green or brown thallus with scurfy, pale, irregularly shaped pseudocyphellae; immersed perithecia visible as darker smudges with orange-brown lateral ostiole at center, or perithecia obscured by thallus with only ostiole apparent; MICROSCOPY: spores 2 per ascus, muriform with squarish locules, dark brown, thin-walled, lumina cylindrical, 130-180(-225) × 38-50 μm; FIELD ID: in examples with gray or green thalli & visible black perithecia (as in photo above), contrast of thallus color with perithecia & brown ostioles beside perithecia provide enough evidence for identification, with experience

Similar Species

None

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Mixed pine – hardwood forest, maritime forest, on hardwood bark

Life History

Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont?

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Coastal Plain, lower Piedmont

Threats

Harvesting old-growth forests

Georgia Conservation Status

Rare

Conservation Management Recommendations

Conserve mature woodlands & forests

References

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.

Harris, R. C. 1995. More Florida lichens including the 10-cent tour of the pyrenolichens. Unpublished manuscript, Bronx, N.Y.

Authors of Account

Malcolm Hodges

Date Compiled or Updated

27 February 2022