Worcestershire Record No. 19 November 2005 pp. 57-60

LICHEN CHECKLIST FOR GREATER WORCESTERSHIRE [2005]

Joy Ricketts

Greater Worcestershire includes the Vice County [VC 37], and the areas within today’s county boundaries. Recording is still ongoing and whilst every effort has been taken to ensure accuracy, there may be some erroneous entries. The majority of these modern records have been taken during the last 10 years, and those supplied by the British Lichen Society Database date from 1970s onwards. This list therefore, should be regarded as provisional. I would gladly welcome any comments and additional information regarding Worcestershire’s Lichen Flora.

Key

Much help has been generously given from the following recorders: -

AA= Dr. Andre Aptroot, BB=Mrs Barbara Benfield, BC= Dr Brian Coppins [Edinburgh Botanical Gardens], TC= Mr Tom Chester (recently deceased], TD= Mr Trevor Duke, OG= Dr Oliver Gilbert (recently deceased), H’wth= Prof. David Hawksworth, PJ = Mr Peter James [Natural History Museum], AO= Mr Alan Orange [Cardiff University.], IP= Mr Ivan Pedley, FR= Dr Francis Rose, BLS = Members visiting the county either independently or at official British Lichen Society meetings, CS= Prof. Clifford Smith, KS= Mr Ken Sandell, MRDS= Prof. Mark Seaward, Bradford University & Keeper of BLS Database, NS = Dr Nigel Stringer. All records annotated JR= Joy Ricketts.

SPECIES

VC

Recorder

Comments
       

Acarospora fuscata

37

JR

270 records

Acarospora glaucocarpa

37

JR

1 record from Malvern

Acarospora rufescens

37

JR & IP

3 records

Acarospora smaragdula

37

JR

50 records

Acarospora umbilicata

37

TC

7 records

Acrocordia conoidea

37

JR

30 records

Acrocordia salweyi

37

JR

7 records

Agonimia tristicula

37

BLS

6 records mainly by TC

Amandinea punctata

37

JR

260 records

Anisomeridium biforme

37

TD & FR

2 records

Anisomeridium polypori

37

JR det BB

1 record from Wyre Forest

Arthonia arthonioides

37

JR det BB

1 record from TemeValley

Arthonia endlicheri

37

FR

SO76 & 84. BLS Database

Arthonia lapidicola

37

TC & IP

10 records, under-recorded

Arthonia muscigena

37

SO95

BLS Database

Arthonia pruinata

37

FR

1 record. Elmley 1986

Arthonia punctiformis

37

JR

2 records

Arthonia radiata

37

JR

30 records

Arthonia spadicea

37

JR

20 records, mainly Teme Valley

Aspicilia aquatilis

37

SO85

BLS Database [New taxon]

Aspicilia caesiocinera

37

JR

15 records, Malvern Hills

Aspicilia calcarea

37

JR

190 records

Aspicilia cinerea

37

TD

1 record, Malvern Hills

Aspicilia contorta

37

JR

200 Records

Bacidia adastra

37

AA

Pershore Horticultural College.

Bacidia arnoldiana

37

MRDS

SO94. BLS Database. 1974

Bacidia neosquamulosa

37

TC

1 record

Bacidia rubella

37

TC & FR

5 records

Baeomyces rufus

37

JR

6 records, Malvern Hills

Belonia nidarosiensis

37

JR

20 records, under-recorded

Bilimba sabuletorum

37

JR

70 records

Buellia aethalea

37

JR

250 records

Buellia griseovirens

37

JR

Under-recorded

Buellia ocellata

37

JR

180 records

Calicium glaucellum

37

TD

SO 96. BLS Database. 1986

Calicium viride

37

JR

10 records

Caloplaca aurantia

37

JR

85 records

Caloplaca ceracea

37

TD

4 records, Malvern Hills

Caloplaca cerina

37

JR

1 record, Spetchley

Caloplaca cerinella

37

JR

1 record, Blackstone Park

Caloplaca chalybaea

37

MRDS

SO94. BLS Database. 1974

Caloplaca chlorina

37

TC & JR

11 records

Caloplaca citrina s.lat.

37

JR

360 records

Caloplaca crenularia

37

JR

30 records

Caloplaca crenulatella

37

JR

130 records, under-recorded

Caloplaca dalmatica

37

TC

7 records

Caloplaca decipiens

37

JR

60 records

Caloplaca flavescens

37

JR

280 records

Caloplaca flavocitrina

37

JR

15 records, under-recorded

Caloplaca flavovirescens

37

SO97

BLS Database

Caloplaca holocarpa

37

JR

200 records

Caloplaca lactea

37

TC & TD

5 records

Caloplaca luteoalba

37

FR

1 record 1973. Elm substrate lost.

Caloplaca ochracea

33

TC

1 record. Kemerton

Caloplaca saxicola

37

JR

180 records

Caloplaca teicholyta

37

JR

180 records

Caloplaca variabilis

37

JR

25 records

Candelaria concolor

33

JR

1 record. Kemerton

Candelariella aurella

37

JR

200 records

Candelariella coralliza

37

JR

5 records, Malvern Hills

Candelariella medians

37

JR

170 records

Candelariella reflexa

37

JR

75 records

Candelariella vitellina

37

JR

400 records

Candelariella xanthostigma

37

TD

5 records mainly Teme Valley

Catillaria atropurpurea

37

JR

1 record, Grafton Wood

Catillaria chalybeia

37

JR

130 Records

Catillaria lenticularis

37

TC & JR

12 records

Cetraria aculeatum

37

JR

15 records, mainly Malvern Hills

Chaenotheca ferruginea

37

JR

50 records

Chaenotheca furfuracea

37

TD

1 record, Hollybush Hill

 

Chrysothrix candelaris

37

JR

2 records, Wissetts Wood

Cladonia cervicornis

37

JR

15 records, Malvern Hills

Cladonia cervicornis ssp. verticillata

37

TD

1 record, Devil’s Spittleful

Cladonia chlorophaea

37

JR

200 records

Cladonia ciliata var. tenuis

37

JR

15 records, mainly Malvern Hills

Cladonia coniocraea

37

JR

70 records

Cladonia crispata var. cetrariiformis

37

TD

SO87. BLS Database

Cladonia digitata

37

TD

1 record, Malvern Hills

Cladonia diversa

37

JR

15 records

Cladonia fimbriata

37

JR

50 records

Cladonia floerkeana

37

JR

15 records, mainly Malvern Hills

Cladonia foliacea

37

JR

15 records, Malvern Hills

 

Cladonia furcata

37

JR

30 records

Cladonia glauca

37

TD

1 record, Malvern Hills

Cladonia gracilis

37

JR

7 records, Malvern, & Hartlebury

Cladonia humilis

37

JR

3 records, under-recorded

Cladonia macilenta

37

JR

130 records

Cladonia pocillum

37

TC

2 records

Cladonia polydactyla

37

TD

4 records, mainly Malvern Hills

Cladonia portentosa

37

JR

10 records mainly Malvern Hills

Cladonia pyxidata

37

JR

50 records

Cladonia ramulosa

37

JR

20 records

Cladonia rangiformis

37

JR

6 records

Cladonia subcervicornis

37

JR det TD

1 Malvern record. Under-recorded

Cladonia subulata

37

JR

6 records

Cladonia uncialis var. biuncialis

37

JR

2 records

Clauzadea immersa

37

SO76

BLS Database

Clauzadea monticola

37

JR

50 records

Cliostomum griffithii

37

JR

40 records

Collema auriforme

37

JR

30 records

Collema crispum

37

JR

90 records

 

Collema fuscovirens

33

TC

5 records

Collema tenax ceranoides

37

TD

1 record, Martley Hillside

Collema tenax var. tenax

37

JR

60 records

Collema tenax var. vulgare

37

JR det.NS

1 record, Doverdale

Cresponea premnea

37

JR det BB

2 records, veteran parkland trees

Cyphelium inquinans

37

JR det CS

2 records

Dermatocarpon miniatum

37

JR

3 records, Broadway

Dibaeis baeomyces

40

JR

1 record, Wyre pipe-line

Dimerella pineti

37

JR

20 records

Diploicia canescens

37

JR

200 records

Diploschistes muscorum

37

JR

4 records

Diploschistes scruposus

37

JR

75 records

Diplotomma alboatrum

37

JR

140 records

Dirina massiliensis f. sorediata

37

JR

130 records

Enterographa crassa

37

JR

6 records mainly Teme Valley

Evernia prunastri

37

JR

150 records

Fellhaneropsis vezdae

37

FR

1 record, Shakenhurst

Flavoparmelia caperata

37

JR

75 records

Fuscidea cyathoides

37

TD

2 records, Malvern Hills

Fuscidea lightfootii

37

JR

15 records, very under recorded

Graphis elegans

37

FR

1 record. 1969, Wyre Forest

Graphis scripta

37

JR

25 records, mainly in Teme Valley

Gyalecta jenensis var. jenensis

37

JR & TC

2 records

Haematomma ochroleucum var. ochroleucum

37

TC

4 records

Haematomma ochroleucum var. porphyrium

37

JR

36 records

Hyperphyscia adglutinata

37

TD & JR

5 records, under recorded

Hypocenomyce scalaris

37

JR

80 records, on old red sandstone tombs

Hypogymnia physodes

37

JR

180 records

Hypogymnia tubulosa

37

JR

25 records. Malvern & Teme Valley

Hypotrachyna revoluta

37

JR

30 records. Malvern & Teme Valley

Lasallia pustulata

37

JR

10 records. Malvern Hills

Lecanactis abietina

37

JR

30 records, Teme Valley

Lecania cyrtella

37

JR

20 records, under recorded

Lecania erysibe

37

JR

80 records

Lecania turicensis

33 & 37

TC

6 records. Under-recorded

Lecanographa lyncea

37

FR

1 record. Elmley Deerpark. 1986

Lecanora albescens

37

JR

350 records

Lecanora barkmaniana

37

JR

1 record. Recently identified. Under recorded

Lecanora campestris sbsp campestris

37

JR

350 records

Lecanora campestris sbsp. dolomitica

37

TC

2 records

Lecanora carpinea

33 & 37

JR

2 orchard records

Lecanora chlarotera

37

JR

260 records

Lecanora conferta

37

JR

30 records. Under-recorded

Lecanora confusa

37

JR

20 records

Lecanora conizaeoides

37

JR

350 records

Lecanora crenulata

37

JR

150 records

Lecanora dispersa

37

JR

450 records

Lecanora epanora

37

TD &JR

2 records, Malvern Hills

Lecanora expallens

37

JR

250 records

Lecanora flotviana

37

JR

1 record. Recently identified. Under-recorded

Lecanora gangaleoides

37

JR

15 records, mainly Malvern Hills

Lecanora intricata

37

JR

8 records

Lecanora muralis

37

JR

350 records

Lecanora orosthea

37

JR

36 records

Lecanora pannonica

37

TC & JR

10 records from western county boundary

Lecanora persimilis

37

JR

2 records, much under-recorded

Lecanora polytropa

37

JR

300 records

Lecanora pruinosa

37

TC

Malvern Priory. British Wildlife Magazine.

Lecanora pulicaris

37

JR

8 records. Teme Valley

Lecanora rupicola

37

JR

25 records. Malvern and west boundary areas.

Lecanora saligna

37

JR

8 records. Under-recorded

Lecanora soralifera

37

JR

100 records

Lecanora sulphurea

37

JR

100 records

Lecanora symmicta

37

JR

50 records. Under-recorded

Lecanora varia

37

JR

8 records. Under-recorded

Lecidea exigua

37

FR

2 records. Hanbury & Shakenhurst parklands

Lecidea fuscoatra

37

JR

160 records

Lecidea lithophila

37

BLS

1 record. Malvern Hills

Lecidella carpathica

37

TC

4 records

Lecidella elaeochroma f.elaeochroma

37

JR

70 records

Lecidella scabra

37

JR

300 records

Lecidella stigmatea

37

JR

400 records

Lempholemma polyanthes

37

TC

1 record. Church Lench.

Lepraria caaesioalba

37

JR det AO

1 record Malvern Hills

Lepraria incana

37

JR

400 records

Lepraria lesdainii

37

JR

20 records

Lepraria lobificans

37

JR

30 records. Under-recorded

Lepraria membranaceum

37

JR

7 records. Malverns & Wyre Forest

Lepraria vouauxii

37

JR

100 records

Leprocaulon microscopicum

37

JR det TD

7 records

Leproplaca chrysodeta

37

JR

15 records. Under-recorded

Leproplaca xantholyta

37

TC

3 records

Leptogium gelatinosum

37

JR

10 records

Leptogium lichenoides

37

FR

1 record. Elmley Deerpark

Leptogium plicatile

37

TC & JR

6 records. Bredon area

Leptogium schraderi

37

TC

4 records

Leptogium teretiusculum

37

TC

3 records

Leptogium turgidum

37

TC

2 records

Melanelia elegantula

37

MRDS

SO94 BLS Database

Melanelia exasperata

37

TD

1 record, Teme Valley

Melanelia fuliginosa sbsp. fuliginosa

37

JR

150 records

Melanelia fuliginosa sbsp. glabratula

37

JR

100 records

Melanelia subaurifera

37

JR

150 records

Micarea denigrata

37

JR

150 records

Micarea erratica

37

TC

2 records

Micarea leprosula

37

JR det TD

1 record. Ragged Stone Hill

Micarea lignaria

37

JR

7 records

Micarea micrococca

37

JR det BC Spetchley Deer Prk.

Under-recorded

Micarea prasina

37

JR

Under-recorded

Miriquidica leucophaea

37

TD

3 records. Malvern Hills

Mycoblastus sterilis

37

JR det TD

8 records

Neofuscelia verrucilifera

37

TC & TD

6 records from the Malvern Hill area

Ochrolechia androgyna

37

JR

12 records

Ochrolechia parella

37

JR

70 records

Ochrolechia subviridis

37

FR

2 records

Ochrolechia turneri s.lat

37

FR

1 record

Opegrapha atra

37

JR

15 records

Opegrapha calcarea

37

JR

9 churchyard records

Opegrapha gyrocarpa

37

TD

4 records from Malvern Hills

Opegrapha niveoatra

37

MRDS

SO94. BLS Database

Opegrapha ochrocheila

37

JR det BB

Rough Hill Orchard

Opegrapha varia

37

JR

8 records. TemeValley dingles

Opegrapha vermicellifera

33

JR det BB

1 record Daffurn’s Orchard, Kemerton

Opegrapha vulgata

37

JR

4 records. Teme Valley Dingles

Parmelia saxatilis

37

JR

120 records

Parmelia sulcata

37

JR

300 records

Parmelina pastillifera

37

JR

1 record from Overbury Churchyard

Parmelina tiliacea

37

?

SO 76. BLS Database

Parmeliopsis ambigua

37

JR

10 records, becoming more frequent.

Parmeliopsis hypertropta

37

FR

1 record from Wyre Forest

Parmotrema perlatum

37

JR

30 records

Peltigera didactyla

37

JR

1 record, Malvern Hills

Peltigera hymenina

37

JR

15 records.

Peltigera membranacea

37

JR

10 records, in western damp regions

Peltigera praetextata

37

JR

7 records from Teme Valley woodlands.

Pertusaria albescens var. albescens

37

JR

Under-recorded

Pertusaria albescens var. corallina

37

JR

80 records

Pertusaria amara

37

JR

100 records

Pertusaria aspergilla

37

JR

10 records from Malvern Hills

Pertusaria coccodes

37

JR,FR,TC

3 records

Pertusaria corallina

37

JR

4 records. Habberley Valley & Malvern

Pertusaria flavicans

37

TC

2 records

Pertusaria flavida

37

JR det BB

1 record from Spetchley Park

Pertusaria hemisphaerica

37

FR

1 record from Shakenhurst 1973

Pertusaria hymenea

37

JR det BB

5 records from veteran trees

Pertusaria lactescens

37

JR

5 records

Pertusaria leioplaca

37

JR

8 records from Teme Valley

Pertusaria multipuncta

37

JR

2 records from Paradise, Lower Sapey

Pertusaria pertusa

37

JR

50 records

Pertusaria pseudocorallina

37

JR

15 records

Phaeophyscia nigricans

37

JR

25 records

Phaeophyscia orbicularis

37

JR

270 records

Phlyctis argena

37

JR

100 records

Physcia adscendens

37

JR

220 records

Physcia aipolia

37

JR

36 records, becoming more frequent

Physcia caesia

37

JR

250 records

Physcia dubia

37

JR

100 records

Physcia stellaris

37

JR det BB

1 record, Spetchley

Physcia tenella

37

JR

400 records

Physcia tribacia

37

JR

10 records

Physconia distorta

37

FR & TC

2 records

Physconia enteroxantha

37

FR

SO84. BLS Database, 1973

Physconia grisea

37

JR

230 records

Physconia perisidiosa

37

FR

SO84,94 & 95. BLS Database 1972

Placynthiella icmalea

37

JR

80 records

Placynthiella oligotropha

37

TD

1 record from Devil’s Spittleful

Placynthiella uligenosa

37

JR

10 records, Malvern Hills

Placynthium nigrum

37

JR

36 records

Platismatia glauca

37

JR

30 records

Polysporina simplex

37

JR

120 records

Porina aenea

37

JR

24 records mainly from Teme Valley

Porina chlorotica

37

JR

2 records. Malvern Hills

Porina linearis

37

JR

1 record. Bredon NNR

Porpidia cinereoatra

37

JR

20 records mainly from Malvern Hills

Porpidia crustulata

37

JR

20 records

Porpidia macrocarpa

37

JR

36 records

Porpidia soredizodes

37

JR

75 records

Porpidia tuberculosa

37

JR

300 records

Protoblastinia calva

37

JR

1 record. Welland

Protoblastinia rupestris

37

JR

200 records

Protoparmelia badia

37

JR

8 records Malvern Hills

Psilolechia leprosa

37

JR

30 records

Psilolechia lucida

37

JR

260 records

Punctelia borreri

37

SO95

BLS Database

Punctelia subrudecta

37

JR

60 records

Punctelia ulophylla

37

JR

10 records. Under recorded

Pyrenula chlorospila

37

JR

1 record. Hanley Dingle

Pyrrhospora quernea

37

JR

12 records, Malvern Hills and Teme Valley

Racodium rupestre

37

SO84

BLS Database

Ramalina canariensis

37 & 38

TC & JR

2 records

Ramalina farinacea

37

JR

60 records

Ramalina fastigiata

37

JR

1 record Castlemorton Common

Ramalina fraxinea

37

JR

1 record Grafton Wood

Ramalina subfarinacea

37

FR

2 records

Rhizocarpon distinctum

37

TC

2 records

Rhizocarpon geographicum

37

JR

40 records Malvern and west of county

Rhizocarpon lecanorinum

36

JR

2 records British Camp

Rhizocarpon petraeum

36

JR det OG

Midsummer Hill disused quarry

Rhizocarpon reductum

37

JR

300 records

Rhizocarpon viridiatrum

37

JR

8 records Hangmans Hill area

Rinodina bishoffii

37

TC

1 record Overbury churchyard

Rinodina gennarii

37

JR

160 records

Rinodina oleae

37

JR det BB

1 record from Spetchley

Rinodina sophodes

37

JR det BB

1 record from Spetchley

Rinodina teichophila

37

JR

100 records

Sarcogyne regularis

37

JR

70 records

Sarcopyrenia gibba

37

JR

15 records, probably overlooked

Schaereria fuscocinerea

37

TD

8 records from Malvern Hills

Schismatomma decolorans

37

FR &JR

3 records from Shakenhurst

Scoliciosporum chlorococcum

37

JR

100 records

Scoliciosporum umbrinum

37

JR

200 records

Solenopsora candicans

37 & 33

JR

Southeast of county

Stereocaulon evolutum

37

JR det PJ

1 record Habberley Valley

Stereocaulon pileatum

37

H’wth

SO97. BLS Database 1969

Stereo. vesuvianum v. symphycheiloides

37

TC & IP

2 records

Stereocaulon vesuvianum v. vesuvianum

37

IP

1 record from Romsley

Tephromela atra

37

JR

250 records

Tephromela grumosa

37

TD

8 records from Malvern

Thelidium decipiens

37

SO94

BLS Database

Thelidium incavatum

37

TC

1 record Stoke Prior

Thelotrema lepadinum

37

JR

8 records from Teme Valley dingles

Toninia aromatica

37

JR

150 records

Trapelia coarctata

37

JR

80 records

Trapelia glebulosa

37

JR

100 records

Trapelia obtegens

37

JR

12 records from Malvern Hills

Trapelia placodioides

37

JR

120 records

Trapeliopsis flexuosa

37

JR

80 records

Trapeliopsis granulosa

37

JR

30 records

Trapeliopsis pseudogranulosa

37

TD & PJ

2 records. Malvern & Habberley Valley

Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla

37

TD

1 record from Hollybush

Usnea cornuta

37

JR

15 records from west of county

Usnea subfloridana

37

JR

30 records, becoming more widespread

Verrucaria aquatilis

37

JR det BB

10 records from Teme Valley

Verrucaria baldensis

37

JR

160 records

Verrucaria elaeina

37

JR det KS

3 records, probably under-recorded

Verrucaria elaeomelaena

33

JR det BB

1 record Kemerton Estate

Verrucaria funckii

37

JR det BB

1 record Teme Valley dingle

Verrucaria fuscella

37

JR

160 records [was V. glaucina]

Verrucaria hochstetteri

37

JR

250 records

Verrucaria hydrella

37

JR det BB

3 records Teme Valley dingles

Verrucaria macrostoma f. furfuracea

37

JR

100 records

Verrucaria macrostoma v. macrostoma

37

JR

150 records

Verrucaria muralis

37

JR

100 records, under recorded

Verrucaria nigrescens

37

JR

400 records

Verrucaria viridula

37

JR

200 records

Xanthoparmelia conspersa

37

JR

10 records mainly from Malvern Hills area

Xanthoparmelia mougeotii

37

JR

80 records

Xanthoria calcicola

37

JR

250 records

Xanthoria candelaria s.lat.

37

JR

100 records

Xanthoria elegans

37

JR

25 records

Xanthoria parietina

37

JR

400 records

Xanthoria polycarpa

37

JR

400 records

       

Lichenicolous species

     

Vouauxiella lichenicola

37

PJ

Habberley Valley [on X. parietina]

       

Lichens which may be in Worcestershire [boundary issues need resolving].

     

Buellia stellata

SO73 & SP04

Bailey 1973

 

Cetraria muricata

SO73

Bowen (deceased)1974

 

Cladonia ciliata var. ciliata

SO73

[BLS 1994?]

 

Cladonia parasitica

SO73

[BLS 1994}

 

Clauzadea metzleri

SP04

[Database]

 

Macentina stignemoides

SO73

[BLS 1994]

 

Peltigera canina s.str

SO73

[BLS 1994]

 

Rinodina roboris

SO73

[BLS 1994]

 

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