LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 663
Bryoria fuscescens (Gyeln.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
| [th] upper surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | black(ish) brown | green(ish) brown (olive brown) |
| [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 areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 0.2 (low) 0.3 (high) 0.4 (max) 0.6 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | pseudocyphellate, with pseudocyphellae |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | dichotomous – unspecified |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | fumarprotocetraric acid | protocetraric acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |