LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1797
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| 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: | white(ish) | yellow(ish) grey | white(ish) grey |
| [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] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | present |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 1.0 (max) 2.0 |
| [asp] shape: | obovoid, obovate |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 46.0 (low) 55.0 (high) 70.0 (max) 80.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 19.0 (low) 23.0 (high) 29.0 (max) 37.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | pale brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thin, thinly halonate |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 5.0 (low) 6.0 (high) 7.0 (max) 8.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | gyrophoric acid | unknown/unidentified compound(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |