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Federal Protection: No US federal protection

State Protection: No Georgia state protection

Global Rank: G5

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: Montane forests

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Description

Greenish to gray, scurfy thallus, with brown or black, flat to convex apothecia; MICROSCOPY: biatorine disk with colorless hypothecium, spores colorless, long, curved, thicker at one end, 8/ascus; FIELD ID possible with experience, given preferred substrate, but best confirmed with dissection

Similar Species

Scoliciosporum umbrinum is on rock

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Montane forests, on bark of Pinus, Carya & unknown hardwoods

Life History

Corticolous foliose lichenized fungus, photobiont a green, unicellular alga

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Southern Blue Ridge

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Rare, probably overlooked

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.

Tripp, E. A. & J. C. Lendemer. 2020. Field guide to the lichens of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

Authors of Account

Malcolm Hodges

Date Compiled or Updated

30 July 2022