LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 9426
Xanthoparmelia ralstoniana (Elix) O. Blanco, A. Crespo, Elix, D. Hawksw. & Lumbsch
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.8 (high) 1.5 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugulose, finely wrinkled |
| [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 | furcately branched, furcate, forked |
| ascomata: | absent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bifusiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 8.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | physodic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |