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Federal Protection: No US federal protection

State Protection: No Georgia state protection

Global Rank: G5

State Rank: SU

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: High-elevation grassy bald ? woodland complex

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Description

Dull gray-green to olive-brown lobes, glossy, ruffled, about 2-3 mm wide, lobe surfaces sometimes textured with shallow ridges & pits; margins of lobes with some combination of cilia, black isidia-like pycnidia & lobules; apothecia common; CHEMISTRY: medulla C- KC-, UV-; FIELD ID possible with a C test to medulla

Similar Species

Tuckermannopsis ciliaris is similar, but medulla is C+, KC+ red

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

High-elevation grassy bald – woodland complex, on Quercus rubra bark

Life History

Corticolous foliose lichenized fungus, photobiont a green alga in Trebouxia

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Southern Blue Ridge

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Rare

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

1 August 2022