LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8694
Fuscoderma limbatum P. M. Jørg. & D. J. Galloway
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | blue(ish) green (turquoise) | blue(ish) brown (violet brown) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 4.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
| [th] lower surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | 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: | fasciculate |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | norvicanicin | vicanicin |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |