LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1132
Candelariella spraguei (Tuck.) Zahlbr.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) yellow |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 1.8 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | bullate |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.6 (high) 1.7 (max) 2.6 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) yellow |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present | abundant |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 2.0 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 4.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | yellow(ish) brown |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | [cur] – curved, unciform, falcate, sickle-shaped | acicular (needle-shaped) |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 30.5 (low) 34.5 (high) 48.0 (max) 57.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 (max) 5.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | oblong, oblong-obtuse |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 3.5 (high) 4.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | calycin | pulvinic acid | vulpinic acid | pulvinic acid lactone |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |