Club Grain-Spored Lichen vs gorilla

Sarcogyne clavus compared with Gorilla gorilla

Key Differences

Club Grain-Spored Lichen is Data Deficient while gorilla is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Club Grain-Spored Lichen	gorilla
Kingdom	Fungi (真菌界)	Animalia (动物界)
Phylum	Ascomycota (子囊菌门)	Chordata (脊索动物门)
Class	Lecanoromycetes (茶漬綱)	Mammalia (哺乳動物)
Order	Acarosporales (微孢衣菌目)	Primates (灵长目)
Family	Acarosporaceae	Hominidae (Great Apes)
Genus	Sarcogyne	Gorilla (Gorillas)
Species	Sarcogyne clavus	Gorilla gorilla

Conservation Status

Club Grain-Spored Lichen

DD — Data Deficient

gorilla

CR — Critically Endangered

Population: ~100.0K

Trend: Decreasing ↓

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Club Grain-Spored Lichen	gorilla
Diet	—	Herbivore
Average Lifespan	—	40 years
Average Length	—	1.7 m
Average Weight	—	160.0 kg

Habitat & Geographic Range

Club Grain-Spored Lichen

Habitat

Native to Europe and North America, inhabiting ecosystems characteristic of the region.

Range

Distributed across Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and United States.

gorilla

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, and flooded grasslands and savannas, among 4 distinct biome types within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Distributed across Cameroon, Congo (Republic), Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Currently classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

Club Grain-Spored Lichen

Sarcogyne clavus is a crustose lichen in the family Acarosporaceae, forming closely appressed, granular to warty grey-white thalli on calcareous rocks, concrete, mortar, and exposed mineral substrates. The species is characterized by its distinctive club-shaped or clavate ascospores, from which its specific name derives. Like other Sarcogyne species, it produces apothecia that are typically lecideine (lacking a thalline margin), dark-colored, and often somewhat convex. This lichen favors exposed, sunny rock faces with high calcium content, including limestone outcrops, old walls, and stone monuments. S. clavus is distributed across Europe and North America, occurring primarily in calcareous rock habitats. As a pioneer colonizer of bare rock, it contributes to the initial stages of ecological succession by weathering the substrate and accumulating organic matter. The IUCN lists this species as Data Deficient, reflecting insufficient data on its population size, distribution, and ecology to assess its conservation status with confidence. Lichens as a group are sensitive to air pollution, but calcicolous crustose lichens on exposed rock may be less vulnerable than foliose or fruticose species.