LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11681
Belonia vezdana Malcolm & Coppins
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | grey(ish) green |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.18 (high) 0.25 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (min) 1.5 |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 16.0 (high) 32.0 |
| [asp] shape: | filiform, vermiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 48.0 (high) 55.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 2.5 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 9.0 (high) 12.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |