LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11038
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi |
| life habit: | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | present |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.16 (high) 0.24 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | blue(ish) brown (violet brown) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent |
| asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 16.0 (low) 17.0(median) 19.3 (high) 21.5 (max) 24.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 8.0 (low) 8.5(median) 9.0 (high) 9.5 (max) 10.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | pale brown | medium brown, brownish | dark brown | reddish brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thin, thinly halonate | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |