LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12465
Pseudocyphellaria kalbii D. J. Galloway
| 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: | green(ish) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [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) 2.0 (low) 5.0 (high) 10.0 (max) 15.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | squamulose | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose | uneven, undulate |
| [th] lower surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | calycin | pulvinic acid | pulvinic dilactone |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |