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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 4334
Parmotrema pardi (Krog & Swinscow) Krog & Swinscow
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) |
substrate: | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[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]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 15.0 (max) 20.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
[th] lower surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | unbranched, simple |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
[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] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 13.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 8.0 |
[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) 10.0 (high) 14.0 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | atranorin | chloroatranorin | fumarprotocetraric acid | protocetraric acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |