LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 9143
Xanthoparmelia verruciformis Elix & J. Johnst.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like | subcrustose (subcrustaceous) |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) green | 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) 1.0 (high) 2.5 (max) 3.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugulose, finely wrinkled | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
| [th] lower surface: | 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 |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bifusiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 6.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | protocetraric acid | usnic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |