LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14327
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 3.5 (high) 4.0 (max) 6.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
| [th] lower surface: | black(ish) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent |
| conidiomata: | present |
| conidia: | cylindrical |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.5 (high) 5.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2'-O-methylphysodic acid | atranorin | physodic acid | 3-hydroxyphysodic acid | apinnatic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |