LiasLight

LIAS light – Item Descriptions


LIASlight ItemID: 3410

Leptogium contortum Sierk

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Americas – North America (incl Mexico)
substrate: soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus: subfruticose (subfruticous), fruticulose, dactyliform
[th] upper surface: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | green(ish) brown (olive brown)
[th upper surface]: epruinose
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (low) 0.1 (high) 0.15
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus)
[th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): subdichotomous
ascomata: absent
secondary metabolites: absent
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: cyanobacterial

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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