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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 4362
Parmotrema umbrosum (Krog & Swinscow) Krog & Swinscow
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | grey(ish) green |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | present |
[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) 5.0 (high) 15.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | 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 |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 14.0 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | atranorin | chloroatranorin | gyrophoric acid | protocetraric acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |