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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: Pine sandhills, pine flatwoods, maritime forest

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Description

Obscure, tiny green thallus with black apothecia; disks low, softly angular (sometimes looking square), with a small, pale central disk; blunt, black hyphophores scattered around some thalli, absent in others, and some thalli without apothecia; FIELD ID: the leaf-whisker most commonly fertile in Ga.

Similar Species

Foliicolous Gyalideopsis, Tricharia spp. (for thalli without apothecia)

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Pine sandhills, pine flatwoods, maritime forest, on Serrenoa repens leaves & rarely hardwood leaves

Life History

Foliicolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont a unicellular green alga

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Coastal Plain

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Rare, likely overlooked

Conservation Management Recommendations

None

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.

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

5 March 2