LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15366
Herpothallon aurantiacoflavum (B. de Lesd.) Aptroot, Lücking & G. Thor
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | leprose, leprarioid, powdery, byssoid |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | yellow(ish) red (orange red) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2'-O-methylmicrophyllinic acid | chiodectonic acid | confluentic acid | rugulosin |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |