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Chiseled Sunken Disk Lichen

Circinaria contorta

2,040Records since 2000
JunePeak month
84Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan113
Feb196
Mar142
Apr187
May161
Jun238
Jul219
Aug192
Sep195
Oct166
Nov86
Dec58

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England163
2Lincolnshire England83
3Somerset England78
4Worcestershire England72
5Herefordshire, County of England71
6Dorset England61
7Cambridgeshire England54
8Kent England54
9Devon England45
10Powys Wales35
11Oxfordshire England34
12North Yorkshire England32
13Cornwall England29
14Cumbria England22
15Sefton England22
1,796 England109 Scotland99 Wales34 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 84 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,040
Peak month
June
Counties with records
84
Scientific name
Circinaria contorta
Group
Lichens
NBN Atlas records since 2000
97
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Pertusariales
Family
Megasporaceae
Genus
Circinaria
Name with authority
Circinaria contorta (Hoffm.) A.Nordin, Savić & Tibell
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q17387634 · GBIF 6755116