
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12534
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves |
life habit: | algicolous (parasitic on eukaryotic algae) |
thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
[th] upper surface: | white(ish) | grey(ish) green | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose | pruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 2.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | verruculose, minutely warted |
ascomata: | absent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | fumarprotocetraric acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |