LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 6573
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| 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: | grey(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: | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (median) 1.5 (max) 2.5 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verruculose, minutely warted | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 4-O-demethylbarbatic acid | baeomycesic acid | barbatic acid | squamatic acid | usnic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |