
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15489
Sticta oroborealis Goward & Tønsberg
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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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 | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | green(ish) | white(ish) | blue(ish) grey |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent | present |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.4 (max) 2.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
[th] lower surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | unbranched, simple | fasciculate |
ascomata: | absent |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent | present |
primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |