LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11898
Rhizocarpon saurinum (W. A. Weber) Bungartz
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
| [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: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | blue(ish) red (purple) |
| 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] shape: | globose, spherical | subglobose, subspherical | broadly ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 12.0 (low) 14.8(median) 17.0 (high) 19.1 (max) 25.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 10.0 (low) 10.8(median) 12.2 (high) 13.6 (max) 15.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 (max) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | greenish brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thin, thinly halonate |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | rhizocarpic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |