LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 2302
Heterodermia hypoleuca (Ach.) Trevis.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | blue(ish) grey | green(ish) white |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [th upper surface] pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 2.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | maculate |
| [th] lower surface: | black(ish) | white(ish) | red(dish) blue (violet) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | unbranched, simple | squarrosely branched, squarrose |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 5.0 (max) 10.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
| [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: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 22.5 (low) 23.5 (high) 30.5 (max) 35.5 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 11.0 (low) 12.5 (high) 16.0 (max) 17.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | cylindrical |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | chloroatranorin | leucotylin | norstictic acid | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) | unknown/unidentified (tri-)terpenoid(s), (tri-)terpene(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |