LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8340
Pertusaria erubescens (Taylor) Nyl.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Antarctic – Antarctica | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – South and Central America | Antarctic – Southern Subpolar Islands, Subantarctic Islands |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | grey(ish) white | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [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 |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.3 (low) 0.4 (high) 0.7 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
| [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: | (median) 2.0 (max) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 30.0 (high) 40.0 (max) 47.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 15.0 (low) 17.0 (high) 25.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | connorstictic acid | norstictic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |