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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, bottomland forest

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Description

Whitish thallus with broad white lirellae, usually raised above the thallus surface; CHEMISTRY: thallus UV-, K+ blood-red (salazinic acid); MICROSCOPY: exciple carbonized, paraphyses tips ornamented with minute bumps, spores colorless, muriform; FIELD ID: dissection required, given possible confusion with other script or graph lichens with white thalli

Similar Species

Acanthothecis species have uncarbonized exciples

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Mixed pine – hardwood forest, bottomland forest, on Prunus & Ilex bark

Life History

Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont an alga in genus Trentepohlia

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Coastal Plain

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Rare

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.

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 Unpublished manuscript, Bronx, N.Y.

Lendemer, J. C. 2010. Revised keys to the Graphidaceae in southeastern North America. Created for the 2010 Tuckerman Workshop, Augusta, Georgia. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, N.Y.

Authors of Account

Malcolm Hodges

Date Compiled or Updated

15 July 2022