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Federal Protection: No US federal protection

State Protection: No Georgia state protection

Global Rank: GU

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: Maritime forest

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Description

Variable yellowish to orange-brown thallus (more intensely colored in sunny habitat) with solitary perithecia, black but with a thalline covering exposing only the ostiole at apices, or occasionally a small bit of the black perithecia); MICROSCOPY: spores brown, muriform, 23-35 x 11-17 µm, cells in 6-8 rows with 4-8 in the each row; CHEMISTRY: thallus K+ purple (anthraquinones); FIELD ID: dissection recommended

Similar Species

Pyrenula ochraceoflava is similar but more tropical, & has smaller spores with fewer cells

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Maritime forest, on hardwood bark: trees & shrubs (also palms)

Life History

Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont an alga in Trentepohlia

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Coastal Plain (coast)

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Common within its very limited range in Ga.

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.

Harris, R. C. 1995. More Florida lichens including the 10-cent tour of the pyrenolichens. Unpublished manuscript, Bronx, N.Y.

Authors of Account

Malcolm Hodges

Date Compiled or Updated

5 August 2022