LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8144
Herpothallon queenslandicum (Elix) Elix
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | leaves, fronds, needles – living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | green(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [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, squamules): | discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugulose, finely wrinkled |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | confluentic acid | constipatic acid | dehydroconstipatic acid | gyrophoric acid | lecanoric acid | protoconstipatic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |