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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 6570
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
[th] upper surface: | black(ish) | yellow(ish) green |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent | present |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | distantly discontiguous |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
[th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | anisotomic-dichotomous |
ascomata: | absent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | 2'-O-demethylpsoromic acid | protocetraric acid | psoromic acid | salazinic acid | stictic acid | usnic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |