LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8629
Parmotrema sticticum (Louwhoff & Elix) O. Blanco, A. Crespo, Divakar, Elix & Lumbsch
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) green |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | maculate | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | irregular |
| [th] lower surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | unbranched, simple |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | chloroatranorin | constictic acid | cryptostictic acid | menegazziaic acid | methyl β-orsellinate | methyl stictic acid | stictic acid | peristictic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |