LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 2356
Pycnora leucococca (R. Sant.) R. Sant.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | squamulose (squamulous) |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) grey | yellow(ish) brown | grey(ish) white |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (median) 0.4 (max) 1.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | subsquamulose |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | alectorialic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |