LIAS light – A Database for Rapid Identification of Lichens
From Diversity Workbench
Description of the data source
The lichen trait database LIAS light (http://liaslight.lias.net/) is a component of the LIAS information system. It is a considerable pool of descriptive data based on 71 different qualitative, quantitative, and text characters, for more than 13,000 lichen taxa (more than 10,800 published), being phylogenetically classified according to the current outline for fungi (Wijayawardene et al. 2020). It includes information on morphological, ecological and chemical traits. The descriptor and descriptor state backbone is translated in more than 20 languages.
