
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12764
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
substrate: | leaves, fronds, needles – living |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
[th] upper surface: | green(ish) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
ascomata: | absent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 30.0 (high) 50.0 |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |