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Viridothelium virens (Tuck. ex Michener) Lucking, M.P. Nelsen & Aptroot
Variable Speckled-blister
Federal Protection: No US federal protection
State Protection: No Georgia state protection
Global Rank: G4G5
State Rank: SNR
Element Locations Tracked in Biotics: No
SWAP High Priority Species (SGCN): No
Element Occurrences (EOs) in Georgia: 0
Habitat Summary for element in Georgia: Mesic hardwood forests and swamps
Green, yellow-tan or buffy-orange thallus, continuous, smooth; perithecia in groups, immersed, visible as black ostiole or occasionally with a small ring of black exciple exposed, tissue around ostioles usually a contrasting pale tan, buff or yellow
Bathelium carolinianum can resemble this species superficially, but usually has straight-sided raised groups of perithecia colored brown, and a green to brown thallus
None
Mesic hardwood forests & swamps; substrates: hardwood bark: 36% Ilex, 24% Quercus, 7% Prunus, 6% Acer & 26% other hardwoods or unknowns; 2 records on Pinus bark
Corticolous crustose lichenized fungus, photobiont an alga in genus Trentepohlia
None
Statewide
Unknown
Common
None
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.
Malcolm Hodges
2 August 2022