- Scientific name
- Canoparmelia caroliniana
- Author
- (Nyl.) Elix & Hale
- Common names
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- IUCN Specialist Group
Lichens
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Lecanorales
- Family
- Parmeliaceae
- Assessment status
-
Published
- Assessment date
- 2021-02-10
- IUCN Red List Category
-
LC
- Assessors
- Ashley Mertens; James Lendemer (Institute of Systematic Botany The New York Botanical Garden); Troy McMullin (Biodiversity Institute of Ontario Herbarium, University of Guelph); Frank Bungartz (Charles Darwin Foundation (AISBL), Galapagos, Ecuador, and Arizona State University, Tempe); Jessica Allen (IUCN SSC Lichen Specialist Group); Rebecca Yahr; Rikke Reese Næsborg (Santa Barbara Botanic Garden); Manuela Dal Forno (Botanical Research Institute of Texas); Chandler Lymbery; Natalie Howe; John Villella; Meaghan Petix; Felicity Roberts; Stephen Sharrett; Rosa Batallas-Molina
- Reviewers
- Pradeep Kumar Divakar (Complutense University of Madrid )
Assessment Notes
Justification
Canoparmelia caroliniana is widespread and abundant on multiple continents in temperate and pantropical regions. Its population size is inferred to be stable. Thus it is assessed as Least Concern.
Geographic range
Canoparmelia caroliniana occurs throughout much of South America, Central America, the south-eastern United States, East Africa, the Azores, and the Canary Islands (Hale 1976, Berger and Aptroot 2002, Benatti and Marcelli 2008, Hawksworth
et al. 2008, Flakus
et al. 2012, Michlig 2014, Lendemer and Ruiz 2015, Kirika
et al. 2016).
Population and Trends
Because this species is widespread and abundant, its population size is inferred to be stable.
Population Trend: Stable
Habitat and Ecology
Canoparmelia caroliniana is mainly an epiphytic species that occurs in diverse temperature, subtropical, and tropical forest types, and rarely also occurs on rocks.
Threats
There are no significant threats documented for this species.
Source and Citation
Allen, J., Yahr, R., Lymbery, C., Batallas-Molina, R., Bungartz, F., Dal Forno, M., Howe, N., Lendemer, J., McMullin, T., Mertens, A., Petix, M., Reese Næsborg, R., Roberts, F., Sharrett, S. & Villella, J. 2021. Canoparmelia caroliniana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194662208A194678189. Accessed on 26 November 2025.