LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12446
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | blue(ish) grey | yellow(ish) grey | white(ish) grey | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 (max) 3.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | squamulose | rugulose, finely wrinkled | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 2.0 (max) 3.0 |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 10.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (median) 5.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | falcate |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 9.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 3α-hydroxybarbatic acid | 4-O-demethylbarbatic acid | 4'-O-methylnorhomosekikaic acid | 4'-O-methylnorsekikaic acid | atranorin | barbatic acid | condidymic acid | confumarprotocetraric acid | didymic acid | fumarprotocetraric acid | homosekikaic acid | protocetraric acid | rhodocladonic acid | sekikaic acid | subdidymic acid | thamnolic acid | unknown/unidentified compound(s) | consquamatic acid |