LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1082
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 0.5 (max) 0.7 |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | yellow(ish) red (orange red) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | entirely amyloid (= Catillaria-, Teloschistes-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 13.0 (high) 17.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.5 (high) 7.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent | present – spore lumen bilocular, polarilocular, plurilocular |
| [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 |