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Byssoloma meadii (Tuck.) S. Ekman
Fluorescent Fuzzy-rim
Federal Protection: No US federal protection
State Protection: No Georgia state protection
Global Rank: G3G5
State Rank: SNR
Element Locations Tracked in Biotics: No
SWAP High Priority Species (SGCN): No
Element Occurrences (EOs) in Georgia: 0
Habitat Summary for element in Georgia: Mesic hardwood forests and swamps
Thin, dull green or blue-green thallus with yellow-to-brown disks; disks rimmed white, the rim fuzzy, composed of felted fungal hyphae; CHEMISTRY: thallus UV+ orange (xanthones); FIELD ID: yellow-disked forms unmistakable, but thalli with browner disks need field UV test to confirm
Other Byssoloma species are UV-, & have consistently darker disks
None
Mesic hardwood forests & swamps; substrates: 92% hardwood bark: 25% Quercus spp., 21% Acer spp., 6% Ilex spp.; 7% various conifers; 1 on silicious rock
Corticolous lichenized fungus, photobiont a species of green unicellular alga
None
Mostly Coastal Plain; scattered Piedmont records
Unknown
Common
None
Brodo, I. M. 2001. Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.
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.
Harris, R. C. 1995. More Florida lichens including the 10-cent tour of the pyrenolichens. Unpublished manuscript, Bronx, N.Y.
Malcolm Hodges
6 March 2022