LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 9178
Pseudocyphellaria insculpta (Stizenb.) D. J. Galloway
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | blue(ish) | blue(ish) black | green(ish) grey |
| [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) 1.0 (high) 4.0 (max) 8.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | maculate |
| [th] lower surface: | white(ish) | yellow(ish) brown |
| [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) 2.5 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [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: | elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 28.0 (high) 33.5 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.5 (high) 8.5 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | reddish brown | yellowish brown |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 7β-acetoxyhopane-22-ol (peltidactylin) | gyrophoric acid | hopane-15α,22-diol | methyl gyrophorate | hopane-7β,22-diol |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |