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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8325
Pertusaria dehiscens Müll. Arg. var. dehiscens
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
[th] upper surface: | white(ish) grey | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | green(ish) brown (olive brown) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.3 (low) 0.8 (high) 1.5 |
ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
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) 3.0 (low) 6.0 (high) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | fusiform |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 90.0 (low) 100.0 (high) 140.0 (max) 150.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 30.0 (low) 35.0 (high) 50.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | thin, thinly halonate |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | constictic acid | cryptostictic acid | lichexanthone | menegazziaic acid | stictic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |