 
	    LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 2880
Lecanora phaedrophthalma Poelt
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: | 
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | 
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified | 
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | 
| thallus: | placodioid-crustose, placodioid-foliose | 
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate | 
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | grey(ish) yellow | green(ish) yellow | 
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | pruinose | 
| [th upper surface] pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine | 
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | 
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 0.6 | 
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | discontiguous, dispersed (towards thallus periphery) | distantly discontiguous | 
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted | bullate | subsquamulose | 
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | subdichotomous | 
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent | 
| ascomata: | absent | present | 
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | 
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 (max) 4.0 | 
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | yellow(ish) brown | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | brown(ish) red (carneous) | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | 
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | grey(ish) yellow | green(ish) yellow | 
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present | abundant | 
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 2.0 | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0 | 
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | yellow(ish) brown | 
| 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]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 11.0 | 
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 7.0 | 
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | 
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | 
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | 
| conidiomata: | absent | present | 
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform | 
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 15.0 (high) 25.0 | 
| secondary metabolites: | present | 
| secondary metabolites: | placodiolic acid | usnic acid | unknown/unidentified (tri-)terpenoid(s), (tri-)terpene(s) | 
| primary photobiont: | present | 
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent | 
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |