LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11650
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | subfruticose (subfruticous), fruticulose, dactyliform |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) grey | white(ish) grey | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [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: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.4 (high) 4.4 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 1.0 (low) 1.4(median) 2.5 (high) 3.6 (max) 6.4 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 2.5 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 6.0 |
| 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] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 13.0 (low) 14.2(median) 15.7 (high) 17.2 (max) 19.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 6.0 (low) 6.5(median) 7.0 (high) 7.5 (max) 8.0 |
| [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: | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 3.0 (low) 3.4(median) 3.7 (high) 4.0 (max) 4.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | emodin | erythroglaucin | fallacinal | parietin | parietinic acid | teloschistin |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |