
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5034
Pseudocyphellaria granulata (C. Bab.) Malme
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
---|---|
global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – South and Central America |
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 |
[th] upper surface: | blue(ish) green (turquoise) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | grey(ish) yellow |
[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) 5.0 (high) 25.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled | uneven, undulate |
[th] lower surface: | black(ish) | white(ish) |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 1.5 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose |
[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: | ellipsoidal |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 22.5 (high) 32.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 9.0 (high) 11.5 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | grey, greyish | greenish brown |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | 7β-acetoxyhopane-22-ol (peltidactylin) | 7β-acetoxyhopane-6α,22-diol | constictic acid | cryptostictic acid | hopane-15α,22-diol | hopane-6α,7β,22-triol | methyl virensate | norstictic acid | physciosporin | stictic acid | hopane-7β,22-diol | 6α-acetoxyhopane-7β,22-diol |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |