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Cornish Red Data (2009)

The descriptive text, below the map, is from the Cornish Red Data Book (2009). The map on this web page depicts the organisms distribution and shows the records made pre-2000 and those made since.

Collema latzelii - a lichen



Range & Status

A rather small species that prefers vertical, sunny, often south-facing serpentine rockfaces near the sea. Very occasionally fertile. In Britain this species is confined to a few sites on the Lizard Peninsula, in the Kynance Cove area on the west coast and at Eastern Cliff and Black Head on the east coast. Elsewhere it is known from the Mediterranean countries of Portugal, Spain, Italy, the former Yugoslavia and Morocco. The Lizard sites lie within a NNR. There are no immediate threats to this species.

Source:

I.J. Bennallick, S. Board, C.N. French, P.A. Gainey, C. Neil, R. Parslow, A. Spalding and P.E. Tompsett. eds. 2009. Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 2nd Edition.Croceago Press.

The Cornish Red Data Book Project was led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders (CISFBR). The full text and species accounts (minus the maps) are available on the CISFBR website.