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LIASlight ItemID: 10130

Caloplaca pyracea (Ach.) Th. Fr.

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Eurasia – Europe
substrate: bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified
[th] upper surface: grey(ish) | yellow(ish) grey
[th upper surface]: epruinose
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial
ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.4 (high) 0.7
ascoma: sessile, superficial
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow)
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | white(ish) grey
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: (min) 4.5(median) 5.5 (max) 6.25
asci: lecanoralean
[asc] tholus: thickened
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: entirely amyloid (= Catillaria-, Teloschistes-types etc)
[asp] length [µm]: (min) 9.0(median) 11.7 (max) 14.75
[asp] width [µm]: (min) 5.0(median) 6.63 (max) 8.25
[asp] septa: absent | present – spore lumen bilocular, polarilocular, plurilocular
[asp] septa: transversely septate
[asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless
[asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent
secondary metabolites: present
secondary metabolites: unknown/unidentified anthraquinone(s)
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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