LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 11937
Peltigera koponenii Sérus., Goffinet, Miądl. & Vitik.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | blue(ish) grey | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [th] lower surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) | white(ish) brown (beige) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | irregularly branched, irregular | fasciculate |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 4.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | subconvex, slightly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | acicular (needle-shaped) |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 44.0 (high) 53.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 4.5 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |