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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

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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