Erioderma pedicellatum

Taxobox | name = "Boreal Felt Lichen"


image_width = 240px
status = CR
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Fungi
divisio = Ascomycota
classis = Lecanoromycetes
ordo = Lecanorales
familia = Pannariaceae
genus = "Erioderma"
species = "E. pedicellatum"
binomial = "Erioderma pedicellatum"

"Erioderma pedicellatum" is a lichen commonly called Boreal Felt Lichen is currently listed on IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and has a very narrow distribution, with the largest remaining habitat in Newfoundland, Canada. This lichen, an amphi-Atlantic species, was prevalent in Norway and Sweden and Atlantic Canada. It has disappeared from both Norway and Sweden and most areas of Maritime Provinces of Atlantic Canada. The remaining habitat in Newfoundland is crucial to the global survival of this species.

An epiphytic lichen, the "Erioderma pedicellatum" is a foliose, or leafy lichen that appear white-fringed appearance when viewed from a distance due to its gray upper surface and white underside where the edges curl upward. It grows on trunks and branches of trees in moist mature forests, where its preferred host in Newfoundland is the balsam fir. An area on the Avalon Peninsula called Lockyer's Waters is one of Newfoundland's most prolific rare lichen habitat.

The only other fungus to be considered Critically Endangered by the IUCN in 2006 is "Pleurotus nebrodensis".

References

* [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/43995/all IUCN Red list of threatened species]
* [http://www.env.gov.nl.ca/snp/Research/transme.htm Transplantation of "Erioderma pedicellatum" at Salmonier Nature Park]
* [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/fungi/Erioderma_pedicellatum/more_info.html Habitat and status from ARKive.org]