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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1564
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
[th] upper surface: | blue(ish) grey | brown(ish) grey | white(ish) grey |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.1 (high) 0.2 |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | oblong, oblong-obtuse |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 12.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (median) 3.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | atranorin | confumarprotocetraric acid | fumarprotocetraric acid | protocetraric acid | ursolic acid | unknown/unidentified compound(s) |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |