LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14539
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Antarctic – Southern Subpolar Islands, Subantarctic Islands |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | 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]: | (median) 1.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
| [th] lower surface: | white(ish) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | decarboxythamnolic acid | diacetylgraciliformin | monoacetylgraciliformin | skyrin (rhodophyscin) | thamnolic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |