
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7210
Xanthoparmelia rubromedulla Hale
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) |
substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
[th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) green |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 1.5 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) | distantly discontiguous |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | maculate |
[th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | isotomic-dichotomous |
[th] lower surface: | black(ish) |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | unbranched, simple |
ascomata: | absent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | consalazinic acid | salazinic acid | skyrin (rhodophyscin) | usnic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |