
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11640
Fuscopannaria globigera Fryday & P. M. Jørg.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | squamulose (squamulous) |
thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) brown | green(ish) brown (olive brown) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.1 (high) 0.2 |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.4 (high) 0.6 (max) 0.8 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 2.5 |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | subglobose, subspherical |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 8.5 (high) 10.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 9.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |