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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11925
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Antarctic – Southern Subpolar Islands, Subantarctic Islands |
substrate: | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
[th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 1.0 |
ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | subconvex, slightly 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] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 3.5 |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | blue(ish) | brown(ish) blue |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with acuate axial body towards the apex (= Bacidia-, Buellia-, Ramalina-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | fabiform, reniform |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 11.0 (high) 13.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 7.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | atranorin | perlatolic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |