LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7216
Xanthoparmelia squamatica Elix & T. H. Nash
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) |
| substrate: | 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) 0.5 (high) 2.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) |
| [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 | dichotomously branched, dichotomous |
| ascomata: | absent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bifusiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 6.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | conechinocarpic acid | echinocarpic acid | squamatic acid | usnic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |