LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15292
Pertusaria khuntanensis Jariang.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) green | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | verrucose, warted |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.6 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (min) 2.0(median) 3.0 (max) 4.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 100.0 (high) 156.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 44.0 (high) 54.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2'-O-methylanziaic acid | 4,5-dichlorolichexanthone (coronatone) | 4-O-demethylplanaic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |