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Fissurina illiterata (R. C. Harris) Lendemer
Common White Script
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 High Priority Species (SGCN): No
Element Occurrences (EOs) in Georgia: 0
Habitat Summary for element in Georgia: Mesic upland hardwood forest, maritime forest, bottomland hardwood forest
White, ecorticate thallus scrawled with white lirellae, appearing as cracks or fissures in the thallus, & edged with low white rims; labia usually closed or only slightly open, except younger lirellae near edges of thallus, which can have exposed dark-gray disks; MICROSCOPY: spores colorless, 4-celled, about 15-17 x 6-7 µm; CHEMISTRY: no substances or spot-test reactions; FIELD ID possible with experience
Fissurina cypressi ihas bolder lirellae & large, muriform spores, more closely resembling an Acanthothecis than most Fissurina
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Mesic upland hardwood forest, maritime forest, bottomland hardwood forest; substrates: 26% Ilex bark, 14% Nyssa, 14% Quercus, 7% Acer, 7% Magnolia, & 30% other hardwoods; 1 record on Taxodium
Corticolous lichenized fungus, photobiont a species of alga in genus Trentepohlia
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Coastal Plain
Unknown
Fairly common
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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.
Lendemer, J. C. 2010. Revised keys to the Graphidaceae in southeastern North America. Devised for the 2010 Tuckerman Workshop, Augusta, Georgia. Unpublished manuscript. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, N.Y.
Lücking, R., F. Seavey, R. S. Common, S. Q. Beeching, O. Breuss, W. R. Buck, L. Crane, M. Hodges, B. P. Hodkinson, E. Lay, J. C. Lendemer, R. T. McMullin, J. A. Mercado-Diaz, M. P. Nelsen, E. Rivas Plata, W. Safranak, W. B. Sanders, H. P. Schaefer Jr., & J. Seavey. 2011. The lichens of Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Florida: proceedings from the 18th Tuckerman Workshop. Florida Museum of Natural History Bulletin Vol. 49: 127-186.
Malcolm Hodges
28 July 2022