LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13574
Pertusaria occidentalis Bratt, Lumbsch & I. Schmitt
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) grey | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th upper surface]: | pruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.3 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.3 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | dense |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | red(dish) | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 2.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | hyaline, colourless |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | globose, spherical | subglobose, subspherical |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 12.0 (high) 30.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 12.0 (high) 20.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | medium brown, brownish | dark brown | blackish brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | thick, distincly halonate |
| secondary metabolites: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2,4-dichloronorlichexanthone | 2,5-dichloronorlichexanthone | 4,5-dichloronorlichexanthone | arthothelin |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |