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Federal Protection: No US federal protection

State Protection: No Georgia state protection

Global Rank: GNR

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:

Element Occurrences (EOs) in Georgia: 0

Habitat Summary for element in Georgia: Natural levee in Coastal Plain hardwood swamp

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Description

Pale bluish-green thallus continuous, thin, not corticate; medium- to dark-brown sporodochia irregular, fibrous, solitary to clumped; FIELD ID: brown fibrous patches distinctive, ID possible with some experience

Similar Species

Tylophoron hibernicum has mounded, discrete, creamy-white sporodochia

Related Rare Species

None

Habitat

Natural levee in Coastal Plain hardwood swamp, on Quercus bark

Life History

Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont an alga in Trentepohlia

Survey Recommendations

None

Range

Southern Coastal Plain

Threats

Unknown

Georgia Conservation Status

Rare

Conservation Management Recommendations

None

References

Ertz, D., F. Bungartz, P. Diederich & L. Tibell. 2011. Molecular and morphological data place Blarneya in Tylophoron (Arthoniaceae). Lichenologist 43: 345-356.

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