LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 2332
Hubbsia californica (Räsänen) W. A. Weber
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like | subfruticose (subfruticous), fruticulose, dactyliform |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [asp] shape: | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 15.0 (high) 18.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 12.0 (high) 14.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | erythrin | lecanoric acid | montagnetol | orsellinic acid | unknown/unidentified compound(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |