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Federal Protection: No US federal protection

State Protection: No Georgia state protection

Global Rank: G4G5

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

Thallus olive green & gelatinous when wet, dark blue-gray when dry; lobes deeply wrinkled & with frilly, lobed thalline margins of chestnut-brown apothecia; lobes anastomosing in zones of contact; FIELD ID: frilly lobes on margins of big disks are distinctive

Similar Species

Leptogium milligranum is similar in general appearance & color, but is isidiate-lobulate; the wrinkled rims of apothecia on Leptogium chloromelum are not lobulate

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Mesic hardwood forests, on hardwood bark: Quercus & Carya

Life History

Corticolous foliose lichenized fungus, photobiont a cyanobacterium in the genus Nostoc

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Coastal Plain

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Rare

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

4 May 2022