 
	    LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 2610
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: | 
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | 
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified | 
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | 
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | 
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate | 
| [th] upper surface: | black(ish) | green(ish) yellow | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | 
| [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, squamules): | discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) | 
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular | verrucose, warted | 
| ascomata: | absent | present | 
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | 
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 1.2 | 
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | 
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | green(ish) yellow | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | 
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless | 
| [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] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | 
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | 
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | 
| secondary metabolites: | present | 
| secondary metabolites: | arthothelin | atranorin | unknown/unidentified pigment(s) |