LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1837
Dendrographa leucophaea (Tuck.) Darb.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | 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: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | yellow(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | pruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 1.5 |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [asp] shape: | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 17.0 (low) 20.0 (high) 24.0 (max) 28.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 4.0 (low) 6.0 (high) 8.0 (max) 9.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 8.0 (low) 10.0 (high) 12.0 (max) 16.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | fumarprotocetraric acid | protocetraric acid | succinprotocetraric acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |