About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. Mustard kidney lichen
Species · Lichens

Mustard kidney lichen

Nephroma laevigatum

1,679Records since 2000
MayPeak month
25Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan163
Feb160
Mar204
Apr177
May246
Jun112
Jul109
Aug69
Sep110
Oct75
Nov123
Dec48

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland780
2Argyll and Bute Scotland305
3Gwynedd Wales133
4Cornwall England101
5Devon England54
6Perth and Kinross Scotland36
7Pembrokeshire Wales32
8Moray Scotland27
9Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland24
10Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland20
11Cumbria England18
12Somerset England9
13Powys Wales8
14Stirling Scotland8
15Isles of Scilly England7
195 England1,271 Scotland178 Wales25 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 25 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,679
Peak month
May
Counties with records
25
Scientific name
Nephroma laevigatum
Also known as
a Kidney-lichen
Group
Lichens
NBN Atlas records since 2000
485
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Peltigerales
Family
Nephromataceae
Genus
Nephroma
Name with authority
Nephroma laevigatum Ach.
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10718170 · GBIF 7086494