LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12274
Anthracocarpon andinum M. Prieto, Aragón & Breuss
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
| [th] lower surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.36 (high) 0.56 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | black(ish) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent |
| asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 14.3 (low) 16.0 (high) 19.7 (max) 22.5 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 7.1 (low) 8.8 (high) 11.3 (max) 12.5 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 4.8 (low) 4.9 (high) 6.3 (max) 7.1 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |