Happy new year! We head into 2023 with plenty of work to do. We're missing articles on a handful of lichen families, scores of lichen genera and thousands of lichen species. Dozens of important lichenologists are "missing" too. We need to check or update the taxonomy of hundreds of existing taxa articles. Many articles about basic lichen structures and functions are either tiny stubs or badly in need of referencing or updating. There's certainly enough to keep us busy for a good long while! Here's to a productive year ahead.

Project news

• Esculenta has continued to expand and buff the glossary of lichen terms, which now contains hundreds of entries and dozens of pictures. A tilt at featured list status is in its future.
• MerielGJones has added articles for several important lichenologists.
• MeegsC has completely rewritten the lichen growth forms article, and has nominated it for good article status. Several pre-existing stubs have been redirected to this expanded article.

Newsletter challenge – last month's champion and a new challenge

Kazamzam met last month's challenge and provided an updated reference for the Cladonia squamosa article – which indicated a significantly larger world range for the species than had been previously listed. Nice job!

This month, we're looking for someone to replace the dead reference in Ramalina fraxinea (defunct since April 2018!) with one (or more) which corroborates the information that the old reference did. The editor who meets this challenge will get public kudos in the next newsletter.