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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: Montane hardwood forests

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Description

Thin, gray-green thallus continuous, verruculose; black disks with rims flat, black-rimmed, round to irregular; CHEMISTRY: thallus K-, C+ orange, KC+ yellow; MICROSCOPY: epihymenium green to dark, hypothecium yellow-brown, spores colorless, simple, 8/ascus; FIELD ID: requires dissection to sort from other black-dot crusts

Similar Species

Other Lecidea/Lecidella species; Buellia/Baculifera species, superficially

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Montane hardwood forests, on hardwood bark

Life History

Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont a green unicellular alga

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Southern Blue Ridge

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Rare; likely overlooked

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