LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11707
Phylloblastia bielczykiae Flakus & Lücking
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | leaves, fronds, needles – living |
| life habit: | saprobic (on decaying organic substrate) | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | leprose, leprarioid, powdery, byssoid | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | grey(ish) green | yellow(ish) green | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | granulose, granular |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.17(median) 0.23 (max) 0.29 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | grey(ish) brown |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent |
| asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | narrowly ellipsoidal | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 22.0 (low) 40.0 (high) 55.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 5.0 (low) 7.5 (high) 13.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (min) 3.0 (low) 5.0 (high) 9.0 (max) 11.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |