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Opegrapha vulgata Ach.
Common Scribble
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:
Element Occurrences (EOs) in Georgia: 0
Habitat Summary for element in Georgia: Mesic hardwood forest, bottomland hardwood
Grayish-white, matte, continuous thallus with bold, sessile lirellae; disks mostly hidden, black labia large, puffy, with rough surface, sometimes cracked; lirellae long, scattered (not dense); MICROSCOPY: spores 6-celled, colorless, widest part off-center; FIELD ID not possible, dissection required
Of the Opegrapha-type lichens with long, black, closed lirellae, O. candida has 4-celled spores & Zwackhia viridis has slightly smaller, more cracked lirellae, a darker brown or green thallus & 12-14-celled banana-shaped spores
None
Mesic hardwood forest, bottomland hardwood; substrates: hardwood bark: 26% Quercus, 21% Acer, 17% Carya & 33% other hardwoods or unknowns; 1 record on Taxodium bark
Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont an alga in Trentepohlia
None
Statewide
Unknown
Fairly common
None
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.
Harris, R. C. 1995. More Florida lichens including the 10-cent tour of the pyrenolichens. Unpublished manuscript, Bronx, N.Y.
Tripp, E. A. & J. C. Lendemer. 2020. Field guide to the lichens of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Malcolm Hodges
11 May 2022