LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8830
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | leprose, leprarioid, powdery, byssoid | placodioid-crustose, placodioid-foliose |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) | yellow(ish) grey | grey(ish) white | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [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) upper surface: | granulose, granular |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | baeomycesic acid | barbatic acid | hypothamnolic acid | protocetraric acid | squamatic acid | subbaeomycesic acid | subsquamatic acid | unknown/unidentified fatty acid(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |