LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15289
Leioderma cherokeense P. M. Jørg. & Tønsberg
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) blue |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 3.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
| [th] lower surface: | white(ish) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| ascomata: | absent |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |