
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1104
Caloplaca verruculifera (Vain.) Zahlbr.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
substrate: | wood – dead, living | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | placodioid-crustose, placodioid-foliose |
thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | present |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 0.8 (max) 1.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | discontiguous, dispersed (towards thallus periphery) | discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular | verrucose, warted | pseudocyphellate, with pseudocyphellae |
[th] lower surface: | yellow(ish) red (orange red) |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.2 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | yellow(ish) red (orange red) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
[ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present | sparse |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 6.0 (max) 8.0 |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) |
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] shape: | ellipsoidal | narrowly ellipsoidal |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 9.0 (low) 11.0 (high) 14.0 (max) 15.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 4.2 (low) 4.5 (high) 6.0 (max) 6.6 |
[asp] septa: | absent | present – spore lumen bilocular, polarilocular, plurilocular |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | ellipsoidal | bacilliform, bacillar |
[co] length [µm]: | (min) 2.5 (low) 3.0 (high) 3.6 (max) 4.0 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | emodin | fallacinal | parietin | parietinic acid | teloschistin |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |