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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: Moist hardwood forests and swamps

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Description

Medium-sized foliose lichen with pale gray thallus (yellow-green when wet), and lobes adnate to bark surface; lobe tips with white maculae, sometimes slightly raised from surface; margins on older parts of thallus with short lobes topped with globular soralia, sometimes sparse or absent altogether from young specimens; FIELD ID: sometimes best told from the side, when adnate lobes combined with big, raised globular soralia are unmistakable

Similar Species

None

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Moist hardwood forests & swamps; substrates: mostly hardwood bark, including 30% Quercus and 7% Acer; 6% on Pinus bark, and a few records from Juniperus & Taxodium; 3 records on limestone & 1 from silicious rock

Life History

Corticolous foliose lichenized fungus, photobiont a species of green alga (Trebouxia?)

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Mostly Coastal Plain; sparingly north of the Fall Line, even into Southern Blue Ridge

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Fairly common

Conservation Management Recommendations

None

References

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.

Authors of Account

Malcolm Hodges

Date Compiled or Updated

11 May 2022