
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8258
Chrysothrix occidentalis Elix & Kantvilas
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia |
substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | leprose, leprarioid, powdery, byssoid | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate |
[th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | yellow(ish) green | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
ascomata: | absent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | calycin | leprapinic acid | pulvinic dilactone | vulpinic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |