LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 9425
Punctelia transtasmanica Elix & Kantvilas
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | blue(ish) grey | 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: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 4.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled | maculate | pseudocyphellate, with pseudocyphellae |
| [th] lower surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) black |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | unbranched, simple | fasciculate |
| ascomata: | absent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | [cur] – curved, unciform, falcate, sickle-shaped |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | chloroatranorin | gyrophoric acid | lecanoric acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |