LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7712
Heterodermia antillarum (Vain.) Swinscow & Krog
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | wood – dead, living | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [th upper surface] pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 2.0 |
| [th] lower surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | salazinic acid | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |