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Tricharia cuneata L.I. Ferraro & Vezda
Acute Leaf-whiskers
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/hydric flat pine woodlands, maritime forest and xeric sandhills
Minute green thallus, patches from about 0.5 mm in diameter sometimes merging into larger thalli several mm across; erect black setae abundant, interspersed with shorter hyphophores broadened into blades near the top; apothecia not seen; FIELD ID possible, but best examined under dissecting scope to see minute structures
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Mesic/hydric pine flatwoods, maritime forest & xeric sandhills, on fronds of Serrenoa repens; 1 record on evergreen Quercus leaves (and seen on other evergreen leaves outside Ga.)
Foliicolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont a unicellular green alga (Heveochlorella?)
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Coastal Plain (mostly lower CP, disjunct in upper CP)
Unknown
Uncommon
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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.
Lücking, R., W. R. Buck & E. Rivas Plata. 2007. The lichen family Gomphillaceae (Ostropales) in eastern North America, with notes on hyphophore development in Gomphillus and Gyalideopsis. Bryologist 110: 622-672.
Sanders, W. B., S. Pérez-Ortega, M. P. Nelsen, R. Lücking & A. de los Ríos. 2016. Heveochlorella (Trebouxiophyceae): a little-known genus of unicellular green algae outside the Trebouxiales emerges unexpectedly as a major clade of lichen photobionts in foliicolous communities. Journal of Phycology 52: 840-853.
Malcolm Hodges
1 August 2022