LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13929
Sticta caliginosa D. J. Galloway
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like | subfruticose (subfruticous), fruticulose, dactyliform |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) grey | grey(ish) blue | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 4.0 (max) 15.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | maculate | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose | uneven, undulate |
| [th] lower surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |