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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11542
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | 2,4-dichlorolichexanthone | 3-O-methylthiophanic acid | 4,5-dichloronorlichexanthone | arthothelin | atranorin | chloroatranorin | thuringione |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |