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Lecanora nothocaesiella R.C. Harris & Lendemer
Blue-gray Powdered-rim
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 forest, submesic woodland
Pale green to whitish thallus continuous; coarse soredia forming near edges originally as discrete soralia, becoming irregular and more profuse in older parts of thallus; apothecia rare or absent; CHEMISTRY: thallus K+ yellow, PD- or pale yellow (atranorin); FIELD ID: not possible; lab chemical tests required
Other sterile, sorediate crusts; Lecanora appalachensis is also PD-, but differs in being areolate, with soralia erupting from tops of areoles; L. layana is PD+ orange
None
Mesic hardwood forest, submesic woodland, on Acer & Juniperus bark
Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont a unicellular green alga (Pseudotrebouxia)
None
Coastal Plain
Unknown
Rare
None
Brodo, I. M. 2001. Lichens of North America. 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., R. C. Harris & E. A. Tripp. 2013. The lichens and allied fungi of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: an annotated checklist with comprehensive keys. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 104: 1-152.
Tripp, E. A. & J. C. Lendemer. 2020. Field guide to the lichens of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Malcolm Hodges
17 April 2022