LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8325
Pertusaria dehiscens Müll. Arg. var. dehiscens
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| 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 |