LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8170
Pertusaria glomelliferica Elix & A. W. Archer
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascospores: | (min) 2.0(median) 3.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 80.0 (high) 105.0 (max) 120.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 25.0 (low) 30.0 (high) 36.0 (max) 40.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2-chloro-6-O-methylnorlichexanthone | 4-chloro-6-O-methylnorlichexanthone | 4-O-demethylglomelliferic acid | glomellic acid | glomelliferic acid | thiophanic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |