LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1420
Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Arctic |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | wood – dead, living | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | green(ish) grey | yellow(ish) grey | white(ish) grey | yellow(ish) green |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 (max) 15.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular | squamulose |
| [th] lower surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | white(ish) |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 4.0 |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | oblong, oblong-obtuse | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 12.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 3.4 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| [co] length [µm]: | (median) 3.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | barbatic acid | isousnic acid | porphyrilic acid | rhodocladonic acid | usnic acid | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) | unknown/unidentified fatty acid(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |