LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1576
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.8 (high) 1.6 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verruculose, minutely warted | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | isotomic-dichotomous | anisotomic-dichotomous |
| ascomata: | absent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | confumarprotocetraric acid | fumarprotocetraric acid | protocetraric acid | unknown/unidentified compound(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |