LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 9169
Pseudocyphellaria ardesiaca D. J. Galloway
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) blue | grey(ish) yellow |
| [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) 4.0 (high) 10.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled | maculate |
| [th] lower surface: | brown(ish) black | yellow(ish) brown |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2α,3β-diacetoxystictane-22-ol | 3β-acetoxystictane-2α,22-diol | calycin | pulvinic acid | pulvinic dilactone | stictane-2α,3β,22α-triol | stictane-3β,22α-diol | 2α-acetoxystictane-3β,22α-diol |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |