 
	    LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 2181
Graphis elegans (Borrer ex Sm.) Ach.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: | 
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) | 
| 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: | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) grey | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) | 
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | 
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | 
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted | uneven, undulate | 
| ascomata: | absent | present | 
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | 
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 0.7 | 
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial | 
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) | 
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | hyaline, colourless | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 2.5 | 
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | 
| asci: | unitunicate | 
| [asc] tholus: | thickened | 
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent | 
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 | 
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 32.0 (high) 55.0 (max) 60.0 | 
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 9.0 (high) 13.0 | 
| [asp] septa: | present | 
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate | 
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 8.0 (high) 12.0 | 
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | pale brown | 
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | amyloid | 
| secondary metabolites: | present | 
| secondary metabolites: | connorstictic acid | norstictic acid | 
| primary photobiont: | present | 
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent | 
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |