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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 and swamps

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Description

Greenish to rusty-orange thallus; perithecia hemispherical and covered with thalline tissue, so concolorous with thallus, & tipped by a small brown ostiole; FIELD ID: unmistakable (see below for closer view of perithecia)

Similar Species

None

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Mesic hardwood forests & swamps; substrates: mostly hardwood bark: 32% Quercus, 22% Carya, 17% Carpinus, 15% Acer; 1 record on Taxodium, and 2 from silicious rock

Life History

Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont an alga in Trentepohlia

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Statewide (though absent from Okefenokee Basin & much of the southeast corner of Ga.)

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Common in good habitat

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 August 2022