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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: Forests, woodlands and swamps

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Description

Green thallus (darker when damp) with fairly small apothecia covered in white fluff; CHEMISTRY: fruiting bodies K+ yellow changing quickly to red-brown (haemathamnolic acid), UV+ yellow (lichexanthone); FIELD ID: possible, though K & UV tests needed

Similar Species

Other Lepra species can be UV+ yellow, but their other chemistry is different; L. trachythallina (sometimes UV+ yellow) is K+ reddish, but it is gray with gray mounded soralia; L. amara looks most similar but is UV-

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Forests, woodlands & swamps; substrates: hardwood bark: 36% Quercus, 18% Acer & 27% other hardwoods or unknowns; conifer bark: 7% Juniperus, 7% Pinus, 2 records on Taxodium

Life History

Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont an alga in Trebouxia

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Mostly Coastal Plain, a few records from the Piedmont

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Uncommon

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

20 April 2022