LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11900
Pseudoramonia stipitata (Vězda & Hertel) Kantvilas & Vězda
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | present |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.4 (high) 0.8 |
| ascoma: | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly concave, excavate, urceolate |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent | present |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 14.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.5 (high) 5.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thin, thinly halonate | thick, distincly halonate |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | stictic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |