LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1104
Caloplaca verruculifera (Vain.) Zahlbr.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: | 
|---|---|
| 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 |