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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: Mesic hardwood forests

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Description

Pale thallus thin, with blue-gray, irregular, coarse soralia; apothecia unknown; CHEMISTRY: K+ yellow, PD+ orange (stictic acid); FIELD ID: requires chemical tests to ID

Similar Species

Other sterile, sorediate crusts; Lecanora appalachensis & L. nothocaesiella are PD-; the former also differs in being areolate, with soralia erupting from tops of areoles

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Mesic hardwood forests, on hardwood bark: specimens noted on Acer, Quercus & Hamamelis

Life History

Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont a unicellular green alga (Pseudotrebouxia)

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Mostly Southern Blue Ridge (1 Piedmont record)

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.

Lendemer, J. C. 2015. Lecanora layana (Lecanoraceae), a new sorediate species widespread in temperate eastern North America. Bryologist 118: 145-153.

Tripp, E. A. & J. C. Lendemer. 2020. Field guide to the lichens of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

Authors of Account

Malcolm Hodges

Date Compiled or Updated

17 April 2022