LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8636
Parmelinopsis protocetrarica Elix
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) | green(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.8 (high) 1.2 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | maculate |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | subdichotomous |
| [th] lower surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | unbranched, simple | squarrosely branched, squarrose |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | gyrophoric acid | protocetraric acid | virensic acid | unknown/unidentified compound(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |