LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12073
Aptrootia terricola (Aptroot) Lücking, Umaña & Chaves
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | white(ish) grey |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.9 (high) 1.5 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) brown |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | black(ish) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] shape: | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 150.0 (low) 170.0 (high) 230.0 (max) 350.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 40.0 (high) 70.0 (max) 80.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | pale brown | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate | amyloid |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |