LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 10672
| 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 |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 0.4 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly concave, excavate, urceolate |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent | present |
| [asp] shape: | clavate | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 24.0 (low) 26.0 (high) 37.0 (max) 43.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 5.0 (low) 5.0 (high) 6.0 (max) 6.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (min) 5.0 (low) 7.0 (high) 9.0 (max) 10.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | thin, thinly halonate |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |