LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 2397
Hypogymnia pseudobitteriana (D. D. Awasthi) D. D. Awasthi
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th upper surface]: | pruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | 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]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| [th] lower surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | chloroatranorin | oxyphysodic acid | physodic acid | 3-hydroxyphysodic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |