
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1133
Candelariella subdeflexa (Nyl.) Lettau
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | white(ish) | green(ish) grey | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.1 (high) 0.3 (max) 0.5 |
ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | yellow(ish) brown |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
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: | oblong, oblong-obtuse |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 9.0 (low) 11.0 (high) 16.0 (max) 21.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.5 (high) 5.5 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | calycin | pulvinic dilactone |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |