LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1447
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) grey |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 4.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugulose, finely wrinkled | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | anisotomic-dichotomous |
| ascomata: | absent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | falcate |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 9.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | confumarprotocetraric acid | fumarprotocetraric acid | protocetraric acid | succinprotocetraric acid | usnic acid | unknown/unidentified compound(s) | convirensic acid | unknown/unidentified fatty acid(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |