LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 6374
Umbilicaria hawaiiensis H. Magn.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | peltate, umbilicate |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | black(ish) brown |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [th upper surface] pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 15.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | distantly discontiguous |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
| [th] lower surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) black |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |