LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8832
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | 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: | green(ish) grey | yellow(ish) green |
| [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 |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | chloroatranorin | contortin | isousnic acid | placodiolic acid | roccellic acid | usnic acid | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) | hopane-16β,22-diol |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |