LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12204
Phyllopsora cuyabensis (Malme) Zahlbr.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | white(ish) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [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] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 1.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.8 |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | hyaline, colourless |
| 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 | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 6.5(median) 8.3 (high) 13.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.5(median) 2.8 (high) 3.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 9.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |