LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14785
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | subfruticose (subfruticous), fruticulose, dactyliform | subsquamulose (subsquamulous) |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | white(ish) | white(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | pruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 0.9 (max) 1.3 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | aspicilin | unknown/unidentified fatty acid(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |