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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: None

Element Occurrences (EOs) in Georgia: 0

Habitat Summary for element in Georgia: Woodlands, forests

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Description

Pale yellow-green thallus thin, areolate to continuous, variably sorediate; minute pale tan to yellowish disks with rough, sorediate rims, disks occasionally overgrowing & covering rims; FIELD ID: unmistakable

Similar Species

None

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Woodlands, forests; substrates: 47% on Pinus cone scales, bark (usually twigs) & wood (1 record); also on twigs & small branches of hardwoods (19% of all records on Quercus) & other conifers; 2 records on silicious rock

Life History

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

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Statewide

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Common to abundant

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

19 April 2022