LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14981
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | placodioid-crustose, placodioid-foliose | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | white(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.8 (high) 3.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | maculate |
| [th] lower surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 4.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) black |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 14.0 (high) 28.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.5 (high) 12.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 20α-acetoxyhopane-6α,22-diol (20α-acetoxyzeorin) | atranorin | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) | hopane-6α,20α,22-triol | 6α-acetoxyhopane-20α,22-triol |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |