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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:

Element Occurrences (EOs) in Georgia: 0

Habitat Summary for element in Georgia: Rocky forests and shaded portions of outcrops

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Description

Gray-green thallus yellowing toward center, variably marked with creamy maculae; made up of eciliate, adnate lobes 4-8 mm wide; lobe tips often concave at center with slightly curled-over, scalloped edges; older lobes wrinkled with pustules along ridges; pustules persist, not developing into soralia; apothecia rare; often grows in rosettes that age and die at center; FIELD ID: take careful note of reproductive structures at center of thallus, where finger-like pustules remain as such

Similar Species

Flavoparmelia caperata is occasionally on rocks, but its pustules become mounded soralia

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Rocky forests & shaded portions of outcrops, on silicious rock; 1 record on limestone

Life History

Saxicolous foliose lichenized fungus, photobiont an alga in genus Trebouxia

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Mostly north of the Fall Line; disjunct on sandstone in Coastal Plain

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

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

13 May 2022