LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12790
Caprettia amazonensis Bat. & H. Maia
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | leaves, fronds, needles – living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | white(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: | ellipsoidal | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |