LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 9176
Pseudocyphellaria glaucescens (Kremp.) Imshaug
| 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 | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | grey(ish) brown | green(ish) brown (olive brown) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 8.0 (max) 12.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
| [th] lower surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) yellow | yellow(ish) brown | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 2.0 (max) 2.5 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly concave, excavate, urceolate | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
| [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: | elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 22.0 (high) 28.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 8.5 (high) 11.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish | greenish brown |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2',2''-di-O-methyltenuiorin | 2'-O-methyltenuiorin | 7β-acetoxyhopane-22-ol (peltidactylin) | 7β-acetoxyhopane-6α,22-diol | calycin | constictic acid | evernic acid | gyrophoric acid | hopane-6α,16β,22-triol | methyl evernate | methyl gyrophorate | methyl lecanorate | norstictic acid | pulvinamide | pulvinic acid | pulvinic dilactone | stictic acid | tenuiorin | 2"-O-methyltenuiorin | 6α-acetoxyhopane-7β,22-diol | 9α-acetoxyconstictic acid | methyl ovoate |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |