Scientific Name:	Calicium viride Pers.
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Classification / Taxonomy
Scientific Name - Concept Reference:	Esslinger, T.L. and R.S. Egan. 1995. A sixth checklist of the lichen-forming, lichenicolous, and allied fungi of the continental United States and Canada. The Bryologist 98(4): 467-549.
Classification Level:	Species
Species Group:	Lichen
Species Code:	CALIVIR
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Plantae Ascomycota Ascomycetes Caliciales Caliciaceae
Conservation Status / Legal Designation
Global Status:	G4G5 (Jun 2006)
Provincial Status:	S5 (Feb 2020)
BC List:	Yellow
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Global Habitat Comments:	Grows on wood or bark of such tress as subalpine fir, englemann spruce, lodgepole pine, douglas fir and w. red cedar.
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Endemic:	N
Global Range Comment:	Global distribution "Common in most parts of Finland, Norway and Sweden; less frequent in Denmark [...] Widely distributed in cool to temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere and southernmost South America" (Tibell 1999). Within North America, widespread in temperate and boreal regions.
Disjunct, more common elsewhere:	N
Peripheral, major distribution elsewhere:	N
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B.C. Conservation Data Centre. Species Summary: Calicium viride. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 10, 2026).