LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1183
Catillaria alba Coppins & Vězda
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | subconvex, slightly convex | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | white(ish) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | entirely amyloid (= Catillaria-, Teloschistes-types etc) |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 6.5 (low) 8.0 (high) 10.0 (max) 11.5 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.3 (high) 3.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 0.0 (high) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | ellipsoidal | cylindrical |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 3.5 |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |