Lichen checklist for Greater Worcestershire

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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