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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: Mesic hardwood forest

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Description

Gray to blue-green, verruculose thallus, with dark prothallus; mounded soralia with blue-green to yellow-green soredia, merging into sorediate masses; CHEMISTRY: K+ yellow, PD+ red-orange (atranorin, fumarprotocetraric acid); FIELD ID: chemical tests needed to ID

Similar Species

Other sorediate crusts on bark

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Mesic hardwood forest, on Ilex

Life History

Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont a chlorococcoid alga

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Coastal Plain

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Rare

Conservation Management Recommendations

None

References

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.

McMullin, R. T. & J. C. Lendemer. 2016. Megalaria allenae (Ramalinaceae), a new sorediate species from southeastern North America previously confused with M. pulverea. Bryologist 119: 290-297.

Authors of Account

Malcolm Hodges

Date Compiled or Updated

5 May 2022