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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8098
Canoparmelia martinicana (Nyl.) Elix & Hale
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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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: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) grey |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose | pruinose |
[th upper surface] pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine | dense |
[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]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 5.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | distantly discontiguous |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
[th] lower surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | unbranched, simple |
ascomata: | absent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | atranorin | chloroatranorin | gyrophoric acid | norlobaridone | protocetraric acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |