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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

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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