LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8549
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | leaves, fronds, needles – living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | grey(ish) green |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | verruculose, minutely warted |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |