Frosted Glass-whiskers
Sclerophora peronella
The Atlantic population of Frosted Glass-whiskers was categorized as a Species of Special Concern in 2006 by and then listed under the federal Species at Risk Act. A Management Plan (2011) indicates that survival for this tiny lichen requires very specific conditions of moist, non-polluted old growth forests. Threats affecting the forest include human destruction (tree harvesting, road-building, development), and climate change; increasing hurricanes and storms resulting in blowdowns. Invisible hazards “from away” such as air pollution and acid rain are also threats to this little lichen due to its direct absorption of nutrients from the atmosphere.
Botanist and lichenologist Iain Crowell of the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre (A extremely inconspicuous” in some of the reports, with its main body embedded in the substrate (the heartwood of the hardwood), and its tiny (0.5-0.8mm) stalked spore-bearing apothecia structure protruding.
In 2006 the Atlantic population of Frosted Glass-whiskers Lichen was categorized as a Species of Special Concern by COSEWIC. (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) and then under the federal Species at Risk Act. As required by law, an Environment Canada Management Plan was published in 2011. CC-DC) has found in 2020 and 2021: two in West Prince and one in Eastern Kings.
It is “extremely inconspicuous” in some of the reports, with its main body embedded in the substrate (the heartwood of the hardwood), and its tiny (0.5-0.8mm) stalked spore-bearing apothecia structure protruding.
In 2006 the Atlantic population of Frosted Glass-whiskers Lichen was categorized as a Species of Special Concern by COSEWIC. (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) and then under the federal Species at Risk Act. As required by law, an Environment Canada Management Plan was published in 2011.