Distribution. Primarily eastern North America with additional records from Asia (Japan), Africa (Kenya) and the Indian Ocean (Reunion Island); in North Carolina found in the Coastal Plain and Blue Ridge ecoregions.
Literature
Fink, B. (1935) The Lichen Flora of the United States. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 426 pp.
Kashiwadani, H., K. Kobayaashi & K.H. Moon. (2011) Checklist of lichens of Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Bull. Shiga Soc. Nat.9: 1-22.
Marbach, B. (2000) Corticole und lignicole Arten der Flechtengattung Buellia sensu lato in den Subtropen und Tropen. Bibliotheca Lichenologica74: 1-384 (description as Gassicurtia elizae).
Tuckerman, E. (1858) Supplement to an enumeration of North American lichens; Part first, containing brief diagnoses of new species. American Journal of Science and Arts 25: 422-430 (original description as Lecidea elizae).
van den Boom, P.P.G., M. Brand, D. Ertz, K. Kalb, N. Magain, D. Masson, U. Schiefelbein, H.J.M. Sipman & E. Sérusiaux. (2011) Discovering the lichen diversity of a remote tropical island: working list of species collected on Reunion (Mascarene archipelago, Indian Ocean). Herzogia24: 325–349.