LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8375
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – South and Central America | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) |
| 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 | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [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]: | (low) 0.4 (high) 1.0 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [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) 4.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 90.0 (high) 115.0 (max) 135.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 30.0 (high) 45.0 (max) 50.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2-chlorolichexanthone | 2-O-methylperlatolic acid | lichexanthone | perlatolic acid | stenosporic acid | 2-O-methylhyperlatolic acid | 2-O-methylsuperlatolic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |