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Common name(s): English: Carolina Moon Lichen

ASSESSMENT JUSTIFICATION [criteria: B2ab(i,ii,iii,v)]

This species has an area of occupancy in the range of 432-532 km², a severely fragmented population, and there are continuing declines in habitat quality observed and projected across its range. Tentatively, the higher estimate for the area of occupancy is used here, as this incorporates additional potential sites that have so far been unsampled. Thus, it is listed as Vulnerable under criterion B2ab(i,ii,iii,v). However, if further sites do not end up being found then the species could then warrant listing as Endangered.

Assessor/s: Lendemer, J.; Reviewer/s: McMullin, T.; Facilitators(s) and Compiler(s): Allen, J. & Scott, T.

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