LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 6489
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Americas – South and Central America |
substrate: | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[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) upper surface: | bullate | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
[th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | isotomic-dichotomous | anisotomic-dichotomous |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 15.0 |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
[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] length [µm]: | (min) 6.4 (low) 7.0(median) 7.8 (high) 8.6 (max) 11.2 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 3.2 (low) 3.8(median) 4.6 (high) 5.4 (max) 7.5 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | sublageniform |
[co] length [µm]: | (median) 7.3 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | fumarprotocetraric acid | protocetraric acid | salazinic acid | usnic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |