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LIAS light – Item Descriptions


LIASlight ItemID: 671

Bryoria nitidula (Th. Fr.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic
substrate: soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified
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)
[th upper surface]: epruinose
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (low) 0.5 (high) 0.8
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): distantly discontiguous
[th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): anisotomic-dichotomous
ascomata: absent
secondary metabolites: present
secondary metabolites: fumarprotocetraric acid
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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