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Pyrenula cruenta (Mont.) Vainio
Bark Rash
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 High Priority Species (SGCN): No
Element Occurrences (EOs) in Georgia: 0
Habitat Summary for element in Georgia: Mesic hardwood forests and swamps
Variable thallus color, orange-red in bright sunlight to green in shade, with at least some red surrounding or on perithecia; warts solitary with thin thalline covering & apical ostiole, on smooth, continuous thallus; FIELD ID: unmistakable, especially well-pigmented thalli
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Mesic hardwood forests & swamps, on hardwood bark: 47% Ilex, 19% Quercus & 34% other hardwoods or unknowns
Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont an alga in Trentepohlia
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Coastal Plain; rarely in southern Piedmont
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Uncommon to fairly common in good habitat, usually conspicuous when present
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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.
Malcolm Hodges
5 August 2022