LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14524
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) grey | white(ish) grey |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | bullate |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 0.5 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 150.0 (high) 200.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 25.0 (high) 35.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | amyloid |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | hypoprotocetraric acid | 4-O-demethylnotatic acid | unknown/unidentified pigment(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |