LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7888
Botryolepraria lesdainii (Hue) Canals, Hern.-Mar., Gómez-Bolea & Llimona
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | leprose, leprarioid, powdery, byssoid |
| thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | blue(ish) green (turquoise) | yellow(ish) green | white(ish) green |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | 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, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | lesdainic acid (6α-acetoxyhopan-22-ol) | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent | present |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |