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Stiff Tar-spot Lichen

Placynthiella icmalea

1,911Records since 2000
JunePeak month
73Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan54
Feb92
Mar152
Apr170
May215
Jun229
Jul212
Aug208
Sep197
Oct144
Nov74
Dec40

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland180
2Devon England80
3Worcestershire England67
4East Lothian Scotland67
5Suffolk England66
6Cornwall England61
7Argyll and Bute Scotland61
8Perth and Kinross Scotland59
9Gloucestershire England56
10Lincolnshire England54
11Herefordshire, County of England50
12Cambridgeshire England48
13Kent England47
14Dorset England35
15Powys Wales33
1,237 England572 Scotland87 Wales11 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 73 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,911
Peak month
June
Counties with records
73
Scientific name
Placynthiella icmalea
Group
Lichens
NBN Atlas records since 2000
114
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Baeomycetales
Family
Trapeliaceae
Genus
Placynthiella
Name with authority
Placynthiella icmalea (Ach.) Coppins & P.James
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10548036 · GBIF 5260397