LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11677
Rhizocarpon infernulum f. sylvaticum Fryday
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: | 
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | 
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified | 
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | 
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | 
| thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate | 
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | 
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | 
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | 
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.5 | 
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | absent | 
| ascomata: | absent | present | 
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | 
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.2 (low) 0.3 (high) 0.5 (max) 0.7 | 
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | 
| [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: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (median) 1.5 | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 | 
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | green(ish) blue | 
| asci: | lecanoralean | 
| [asc] tholus: | thickened | 
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present | 
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) | 
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 | 
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 17.5 (high) 19.0 (max) 20.0 | 
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 8.5 (high) 11.0 | 
| [asp] septa: | present | 
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate | 
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 | 
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | 
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate | 
| secondary metabolites: | absent | 
| primary photobiont: | present | 
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent | 
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |