LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 9173
Pseudocyphellaria colensoi (C. Bab. ex Hook. f.) Vain.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | grey(ish) green | blue(ish) green (turquoise) | yellow(ish) brown |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 25.0 (max) 30.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
| [th] lower surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 (max) 10.0 |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 30.0 (high) 35.0 (max) 40.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 9.0 (high) 11.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | yellowish brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 22α-hydroxystictane-3-one | 2α,3β,22α-triacetoxystictane | 2α,3β-diacetoxystictane-22-ol | 3β-acetoxystictane-2α,22-diol | calycin | polyporic acid | pulvinic acid | pulvinic dilactone | stictane-2α,3β,22α-triol | stictane-3β,22α-diol | 2β-acetoxystictane-3β,22α-diol |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |