Biodiversity in Glen Affric
Lichens occurring in the Pinewoods in Glen Affric

Compiled by B.J. Coppins 16 September 2000

This is a combined annotated species list for the pinewood areas, compiled from records made by B.J. Coppins from 1975-2000, jointly (on different occasions) with A.M. Coppins, P.W. James, F. Rose, L. Tibell, and with members of the British Lichen Society on the Native Pinewood Workshop (July 2000).

The list does not include records from Badger Falls. Most records are from around Dog Falls and from Pollan Bhuidhe.

The list mostly excludes species found only on rocks.

The list for substrata is by no means comprehensive. Full information is not available for all species, i.e. where the record is taken from a cross-off card only.

Status
Legal protection: S8 = on Schedule 8 of Wildlife and Countryside Act.
Red Data Book: VU = Vulnerable.
Rarity: Nr = Nationally Rare (1-15 10km grid squares in UK); Ns = Nationally scarce (16-100 10km grid squares).

Substrata
Al = Alnus; B = Betula; Cl = Calluna; L or ~L = lignum; P = Pinus; Po = Populus; S = Salix; Sb = Sorbus; Sx = saxicolous; T = terricolous; -by = on bryophytes; -r = on roots; -tw = twigs

  Status Substrata
Alectoria sarmentosa Ns B,P
Arthonia leucopellaea Ns B
Arthonia punctiformis   Al,B-tw,Sb
Arthonia radiata   Al,Sb
Arthonia vinosa   Al
Arthopyrenia antecellans   Sb
Arthopyrenia lapponina   Al,B,Sb
Arthopyrenia punctiformi

   Al,B,Sb
Bacidia absistens Ns B,S
Baeomyces rufus   PL,T
Biatora chrysantha Ns  
Bryophagus gloeocapsa Ns T-by
Bryoria capillaris Ns B,P
Bryoria furcellata S8, VU, Nr B,Cl,P,PL,L-fence
Bryoria fuscescens   Al,B,P
Bryoria subcana   B,P
Buellia disciformis   Al,B,Sb
Buellia griseovirens   S
Buellia erubescens

 Ns Al,S
Calicium glaucellum   PL
Calicium parvum Nr P
Calicium salicinum  
Calicium viride   B
Caloplaca ferruginea Ns Sb
Catillaria pulverea   Al,B
Cavernularia hultenii Ns B,P
Cetraria chlorophylla   B,P-br,PL
Chaenotheca brunneola   PL
Chaenotheca chrysocephala   B,P,PL
Chaenotheca ferruginea   B,P,PL
Chaenotheca furfuracea   B-r,P-r
Chaenotheca trichialis   Al,P,PL
Chaenothecopsis epithallina Nr PL
Chaenothecopsis parasitaster Nr L/T-Cladonia
Chrysothrix candelaris   Al,B
Chrysothrix chrysophthalma Nr PL
Chrysothrix flavovirens   P,PL
Cladonia bellidiflora   PL
Cladonia carneola Ns B,PL,T
Cladonia chlorophaea agg.   PL
Cladonia ciliata s.l.   B,PL,T
Cladonia coccifera agg.   B,PL,T
Cladonia coniocraea   B,P,T
Cladonia cornuta   PL
Cladonia crispata   P-base
Cladonia digitata   PL,T
Cladonia diversa    
Cladonia fimbriata   P,PL,T
Cladonia floerkeana   PL
Cladonia furcata   B,P,T
Cladonia gracilis   PL,T
Cladonia macilenta   P,T
Cladonia ochrochlora   PL
Cladonia polydactyla   B,PL,T
Cladonia portentosa   B,P,PL,T
Cladonia pyxidata   PL,S,Sb
Cladonia ramulosa   P,PL
Cladonia rangiferina   P-base,T
Cladonia squamosa s. lat.   PL,T
Cladonia subcervicornis   T
Cladonia sulphurina   PL,T
Cladonia uncialis ssp. biuncialis   P-base,T
Cliostomum griffithii   Al,B
Coelocaulon aculeatum   PL,T
Cyphelium inquinans   B,PL
Cystocoleus ebeneus

   B
Degelia plumbea   S
Dibaeis baeomyces   T
Dimerella pineti

   Al,P
Elixia flexella Nr PL
Evernia prunastri

   Al,B,P,Sb
Hypocenomyce caradocensis   PL
Hypocenomyce friesii Ns P,PL
Hypocenomyce scalaris   P,PL
Hypogymnia physodes   Al,B,Cl,P,PL
Hypogymnia tubulosa

   B,P
Icmadophila ericetorum   P,PL,T
Imshaugia aleurites

   B,P,PL
Japewia subaurifera

 Nr B,Sb
Lecanactis abietina   Al,B,P
Lecanora chlarotera   Al,B,S,Sb
Lecanora expallens   Sb
Lecanora farinaria   S
Lecanora intumescens   Sb
Lecanora pulicaris   Al,B,PL-br
Lecanora saligna   AlL
Lecanora symmicta   P,PL
Lecidea hypopta Ns P,PL
Lecidea sanguineoatra Ns
Lecidea turgidula   PL
Lecidella elaeochroma   Al,B,S,Sb
Lepraria incana   Al,B,P
Lepraria umbricola Ns P
Leproloma membranaceum   Al
Lobaria amplissima   C
Lobaria pulmonaria   B,Sb
Lobaria scrobiculata   B,Sb
Lobaria virens   Sb
Lopadium disciforme Ns Al,Sb
Loxospora elatina

   Al,B,P,Sb
Micarea adnata Ns P,PL
Micarea cinerea   P,PL
Micarea lignaria   P,PL
var. endoleuca Ns

Micarea melaena   PL
Micarea nigella Nr PL
Micarea nitschkeana   Al-tw,P,P-br
Micarea peliocarpa   PL
Micarea prasina   Al,B,PL
Microcalicium ahlneri Ns PL
Microcalicium disseminatum Ns P,PL
Mycoblastus affinis Ns PL
Mycoblastus caesius   Al,B,P,PL,Sb
Mycoblastus fucatus   B,P,PL,S
Mycoblastus sanguinarius   Al,B,BL,P,PL
Mycoglaena myricae

   Myrica
Nephroma laevigatum   B,S,Sb
Nephroma parile   S
Normandina pulchella

   S,Sb
Ochrolechia androgyna   B,P,PL,Sx
Ochrolechia microstictoides   B,P,PL
Ochrolechia szatalaensis Ns Sb
Ochrolechia tartarea   B,P,Sb
Omphalina ericetorum

   PL,T
Pannaria conoplea   B,Sb
Pannaria rubiginosa   S,Sb
Parmelia discordans   B,P
Parmelia glabratula subsp. glabratula   Al,B,P
Parmelia omphalodes   B
Parmelia saxatilis   Al,B,P,Sx
Parmelia subaurifera   Al,B-tw,P-br
Parmelia sulcata   Al,B,P
Parmeliella parvula   S,Sb
Parmeliopsis ambigua   B,P,PL
Parmeliopsis hyperopta   B,P,PL
Peltigera collina   Sb
Peltigera didactyla   T
Peltigera lactucifolia   PL,T
Peltigera membranacea   PL,T
Peltigera praetextata   P,S
Pertusaria albescens   B,PL
Pertusaria amara   Al,B,S,Sb
Pertusaria coronata Ns B
Pertusaria leioplaca   B,S,Sb
Pertusaria multipuncta   Al,S,Sb
Pertusaria pertusa   Al,B,S,Sb
Pertusaria pupillaris   B,PL
Phaeocalicium praecedens Ns Po-tw
Phlyctis argena   Al,Sb
Placynthiella dasaea   PL
Placynthiella icmalea   PL,T
Placynthiella uliginosa   P,PL,T
Platismatia glauca   Al,B,P
Platismatia norvegica Ns B,P
Protoparmelia ochrococca Ns Al,B,P,PL
Pseudevernia furfuracea s.l.   B,P
Psoroma hypnorum Ns B
Ptychographa xylographoides Ns PL
Pycnothelia papillaria

   T
Ramalina farinacea

   Al,B,P
Sclerophora pallida VU, Ns AlL,BL
Scoliciosporum umbrinum   L-fence,Sb
Sphaerophorus globosus   Al,B,P,PL,Sb
Sphaerophorus melanocarpus   Sx
Stenocybe pullatula

   Al-tw
Thelotrema lepadinum   Al,B,Sb
Trapelia corticola   Al,B,P
Trapeliopsis flexuosa   PL
Trapeliopsis granulosa   PL,T
Trapeliopsis percrenata Ns PL
Trapeliopsis pseudogranulosa

   Al,PL,T
Usnea filipendula   B,P
Usnea fragilescens  
Usnea hirta  
Usnea rubicunda   P
Usnea subfloridana

   Al,B,P,PL
Xylographa parallela   PL
Xylographa trunciseda Ns PL
Xylographa vitiligo   PL

Total 178 species

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Cladonia diversa on a rock in Glen Affric.

 


Lichen (Cladonia diversa) on a moss-covered rock, Glen Affric.

 


Lichens (Cladonia polydactyla) (juveniles, at top) and (Cladonia coniocraea) below, on an old tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius) on a dead birch log, Glen Affric.

 

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Lichen (Icmadophila ericetorum) with fruit bodies on a tree stump in Glen Affric.

 


Tree lungwort (Lobaria pulmonaria), near Badger Falls, Glen Affric.

 


Tree lungwort (Lobaria pulmonaria) surrounded by another lichen (Nephroma laevigatum) on the trunk of a rowan tree in Glen Affric.

 


Cudbear lichen (Ochrolechia tartarea) on a fallen birch in Glen Affric.

 

Dog lichen

Dog-lichen (Peltigera membranacea) on the moss-covered trunk of an eared willow (Salix aurita) in Glen Affric.

 


Pinhead lichens (Phaeocalicium praecedens) on an aspen twig in Glen Affric.

 


Lichen (Sphaerophorus globosus) in Glen Affric.

 


Beard lichen (Usnea filipendula) on an oak tree (Quercus petraea) in spring, near Coire Loch, Glen Affric.

 


Beard lichen (Usnea filipendula) on a Scots pine snag (Pinus sylvestris), beside Coire Loch, Glen Affric.

 

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