LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7435
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
| 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: | yellow(ish) green | green(ish) yellow |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [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) 0.5 (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | pseudocyphellate, with pseudocyphellae |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | subdichotomous | irregular |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2-O-methylsekikaic acid | 4'-O-methylnorhomosekikaic acid | 4'-O-methylnorsekikaic acid | 4'-O-methylpaludosic acid | boninic acid | homosekikaic acid | ramalinolic acid | sekikaic acid | usnic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |