Szczawinskia leucopoda is a rare species of lichen in to the family Pilocarpaceae. It is characterised by its distinctive granular body that appears dark greenish to greyish green and its unique stalked reproductive structures with black, spoon-shaped heads on whitish stalks. First described in 2002, this lichen grows primarily on the twigs of spruce and fir trees in humid coniferous forests across an amphi-Atlantic distribution, being found in coastal regions of central Norway and Newfoundland, Canada. The species typically occurs in older, undisturbed forests with high humidity, where it forms part of species-rich communities of lichens. Though previously found in Sweden, S. leucopoda is now regionally extinct there, with its disappearance linked to forestry operations that destroyed its habitat and altered the local environmental conditions, demonstrating its sensitivity to forest management practices.

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