LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14521
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) grey | white(ish) grey |
| [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]: | (min) 0.8 (low) 1.2 (high) 2.0 (max) 3.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
| [th] lower surface: | black(ish) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2'-O-methylphysodic acid | atranorin | physodic acid | protocetraric acid | 3-hydroxyphysodic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |