LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12037
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | white(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.75 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | pseudocyphellate, with pseudocyphellae |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 1.2 |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | red(dish) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with acuate axial body towards the apex (= Bacidia-, Buellia-, Ramalina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 15.0(median) 17.1 (high) 18.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.0(median) 6.7 (high) 7.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | lichexanthone | unknown/unidentified (tri-)terpenoid(s), (tri-)terpene(s) | unknown/unidentified pigment(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |