LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11613
Caloplaca soralifera Vondrák & Hrouzek
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | subsquamulose (subsquamulous) |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 0.2 (low) 0.3(median) 0.45 (high) 0.6 (max) 0.8 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.2 (low) 0.35(median) 0.5 (high) 0.65 (max) 1.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | white(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present |
| [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) 3.0 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.5(median) 3.5 (high) 4.5 (max) 6.5 |
| 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] length [µm]: | (min) 11.5 (low) 12.0(median) 13.0 (high) 14.0 (max) 15.5 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 4.0 (low) 5.0(median) 6.5 (high) 8.0 (max) 10.0 |
| [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 |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 2.5 (low) 2.75(median) 3.0 (high) 3.25 (max) 3.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 7-chloroemodin | emodin | fragilin | parietin | emodinal | emodic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |