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Tiny Button Lichen

Amandinea punctata

3,526Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
95Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan182
Feb274
Mar327
Apr340
May349
Jun337
Jul330
Aug352
Sep277
Oct256
Nov193
Dec148

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Suffolk England236
2Gloucestershire England221
3East Lothian Scotland170
4Cambridgeshire England150
5Kent England149
6Devon England102
7Herefordshire, County of England98
8Lincolnshire England96
9Worcestershire England90
10Dorset England58
11Norfolk England52
12Somerset England51
13Highland Scotland48
14Midlothian Scotland44
15Cornwall England41
2,870 England424 Scotland158 Wales41 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 95 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,526
Peak month
August
Counties with records
95
Scientific name
Amandinea punctata
Group
Lichens
NBN Atlas records since 2000
236
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Caliciales
Family
Caliciaceae
Genus
Amandinea
Name with authority
Amandinea punctata (Hoffm.) Coppins & Scheid.
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10567609 · GBIF 5261442