
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5958
Stereocaulon spathuliferum Vain.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
substrate: | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) white |
[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 lobes, branches): | irregular |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | atranorin | stictic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent | present |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |