LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 9302
Usnea punctulata G. N. Stevens
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | grey(ish) green |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [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]: | (min) 1.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | pseudocyphellate, with pseudocyphellae |
| ascomata: | absent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | norstictic acid | protocetraric acid | salazinic acid | scabrosin 4,4'-diacetate | scabrosin 4,4'-dibutanoate (4,4'-dibutyrate) | scabrosin 4-acetate-4'-butanoate (4-acetate-4'-butyrate) | scabrosin 4-acetate-4'-hexanoate | usnic acid | unknown/unidentified fatty acid(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |