LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 2311
Heterodermia linearis Moberg & T. H. Nash
| 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: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | white(ish) grey |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (median) 1.0 |
| [th] lower surface: | white(ish) | blue(ish) white |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 5.0 |
| ascoma: | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
| [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) 29.0 (low) 32.5 (high) 38.5 (max) 42.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 14.0 (low) 15.0 (high) 18.0 (max) 21.5 |
| [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) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | chloroatranorin | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |