LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14865
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | grey(ish) green |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.7 (high) 1.2 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | subdichotomous |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | unbranched, simple | branched – unspecified |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.7 (high) 2.5 |
| ascoma: | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 12.0 (high) 16.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 7.5 (high) 10.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | vicanicin | unknown/unidentified (tri-)terpenoid(s), (tri-)terpene(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | present |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |