As 2023 draws to a close, we can look back with more than a modicum of pride on the progress we've made this year. We've added a few stars to our showcase with our first featured list and a handful of new good articles, created a plethora of new taxa articles, and added biographies for more than a dozen important lichenologists. We've resolved dozens of outstanding "cleanup" issues, and begun to polish some existing articles about various lichen structures. All in all, it's been a fairly productive year! Here's hoping that the coming holidays are happy ones, whichever you choose to celebrate.

Articles of note

New good articles:

• Placidium arboreum (6 November) – a bark-dwelling lichen found primarily in the southeastern US
• Pulchrocladia retipora (23 November) – an intricately-branched coral lichen found principally in Australasia
• Anaptychia ciliaris (28 November) - a fruticose lichen found primarily in northern Europe and used for biomonitoring

Project news

• Esculenta is still waiting for GA reviews to be completed for three articles: Buellia frigida, Chrysothrix chlorina, and Punctelia.
• MerielGJones has added articles about two noted Hungarian lichenologists who happen to be married to each other – Edit Éva Farkas and László Sándor Lőkös.

Newsletter challenge

Kazamzam cleaned up the references for our Stereocaulon ramulosum article to meet part of the challenge issued in the last newletter. Unfortunately, the Phytochemistry section of that article is still a mess, just in case anybody feels motivated to complete the rest of the challenge!

This month, we're looking for someone to take a look at the Malmidea article, which hasn't been updated since 2020. Since then, the number of species assigned to the genus has grown from the 52 listed in our article to the 68 listed by Species Fungorum (via the Catalogue of Life). The editor who updates the list will receive public kudos in the next newsletter.