LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 4402
Peltigera neopolydactyla (Gyeln.) Gyeln.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 20.0 (high) 30.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | unbranched, simple | irregularly branched, irregular |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 15α-acetoxyhopane-22-ol (dolichorrhizin) | 7β-acetoxyhopane-22-ol (peltidactylin) | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |