LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5548
Rhizoplaca peltata (Ramond) Leuckert & Poelt
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | peltate, umbilicate |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | grey(ish) yellow | green(ish) yellow | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [th upper surface] pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 |
| [th] lower surface: | blue(ish) black | yellow(ish) brown |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | yellow(ish) brown | 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: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | subglobose, subspherical | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 9.0 (high) 12.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 20.0 (high) 40.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | hypoprotocetraric acid | lecanoric acid | norstictic acid | pannarin | placodiolic acid | psoromic acid | rangiformic acid | usnic acid | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) | unknown/unidentified compound(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |