LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11350
Hypotrachyna mirabilis Ribeiro & Marcelli
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | white(ish) | yellow(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 0.5 (low) 1.0 (high) 2.5 (max) 3.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled | rugulose, finely wrinkled | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
| [th] lower surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | dichotomously branched, dichotomous | irregularly branched, irregular |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 4-O-methylphysodic acid | colensoic acid | lichexanthone | pigmentosin A | protocetraric acid | 4-O-methylisophysodic acid | unknown/unidentified fatty acid(s) | isophysodic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |