LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8689
Flavoparmelia proeuplecta Elix & J. Johnst.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) green |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 5.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled | maculate | uneven, undulate |
| [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 | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 10.0 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 14.0 (high) 16.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 9.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | fusiform | bifusiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 9.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | caperatic acid | euplectin | protocetraric acid | skyrin (rhodophyscin) | usnic acid | virensic acid | coneuplectin |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |