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Cetrelia chicitae (Culb.) Culb. & C. Culb.
Chicita's Sea-storm
Federal Protection: No US federal protection
State Protection: No Georgia state protection
Global Rank: G5
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
Gray-green ruffled lobes 5-15 mm across; older lobes with linear marginal soralia and laminal mounded soralia near margins; lobe surface with scattered white pseudocyphellae of a variety of shapes and sizes, some round, some elongate, with large and small sizes mixed, but all small near the edge of freshly growing lobes; lower surface with a network of raised veins, brown near edges and black in center, with few rhizines; CHEMISTRY: C- medulla; FIELD ID to genus only, unless a field C test is conducted
Cetrelia olivetorum is identical except medulla is C+ red
None
Mixed pine – hardwood forest; substrates: 38% Quercus bark, 31% other hardwoods or fallen twigs, and 25% boulders or cliffs; 1 record on Tsuga
Corticolous & saxicolous foliose lichenized fungus, photobiont a green alga (in genus Trebouxia?)
None
Southern Blue Ridge
Unknown
Uncommon to fairly common
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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.
Malcolm Hodges
15 July 2022