LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8132
Pertusaria tjaetabensis A. W. Archer & Elix
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) green | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 1.2 |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (min) 2.0(median) 3.0 (max) 4.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 70.0 (high) 88.0 (max) 100.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 26.0 (high) 34.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2,4,5-trichlorolichexanthone | 2,4-dichlorolichexanthone | 2,5-dichlorolichexanthone | 2-O-methylperlatolic acid | constictic acid | cryptostictic acid | planaic acid | stictic acid | 2-O-methylhyperlatolic acid | methyl planaiate | peristictic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |