LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5007
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | green(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | yellow(ish) green |
| [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) 3.0 (high) 15.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled | uneven, undulate | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
| [th] lower surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 25.0 (low) 30.0 (high) 32.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 7.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 3β-acetoxyfern-9(11)-en-12-one | 3β-hydroxyfern-9(11)-ene-12-one | calycin | lupeol acetate | pulvinic acid | pulvinic dilactone | 3β-acetoxyfern-9(11)-en-12β-ol | 3β-acetoxyfern-9(11)-en-19β-ol | fern-9(11)-en-3β,12β-diol |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |