LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5028
Pseudocyphellaria endochrysea (Delise) Vain.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America | Antarctic – Southern Subpolar Islands, Subantarctic Islands |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) green | green(ish) yellow | yellow(ish) brown |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 20.0 (high) 30.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | uneven, undulate | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
| [th] lower surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 2.5 (max) 3.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | white(ish) red (rose) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| 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: | acicular (needle-shaped) |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 18.0 (high) 31.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 4.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | calycin | pseudocyphellarin A (3-hydroxy-4-methoxycarbonyl-2,5,6-trimethylphenyl 3-formyl-2,4-dihydroxy-5,6-dimethylbenzoate) | pseudocyphellarin B (3-hydroxy-4-methoxycarbonyl-2,5,6-trimethylphenyl 2,4-dihydroxy-3-hydroxymethyl-5,6-dimethylbenzoate) | pulvinic acid | pulvinic dilactone | stictane-2α,3β,22α-triol | unknown/unidentified compound(s) | unknown/unidentified (tri-)terpenoid(s), (tri-)terpene(s) | 2β-acetoxystictane-3β,22α-diol |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |