LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1160
Carbonea vorticosa (Flörke) Hertel
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Antarctic – Antarctica | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Arctic | Antarctic – Southern Subpolar Islands, Subantarctic Islands |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | subsquamulose (subsquamulous) |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 0.9 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular | verrucose, warted |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.5 (low) 0.8 (high) 1.2 (max) 1.4 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | black(ish) brown |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 1.8 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 2.5 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | blue(ish) black | blue(ish) green (turquoise) |
| 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: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 6.5 (low) 8.0 (high) 13.0 (max) 13.5 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 (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 |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | pannarin |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |