
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12323
Thelocarpon sphaerosporum H. Magn.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic |
life habit: | cyanobacteriicolous (parasitic on cyanobacteria) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.15 (high) 0.2 |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine | dense |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
asci: | unitunicate |
[asc] tholus: | not thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent | present |
ascospores: | (low) 50.0 (high) 300.0 |
[asp] shape: | globose, spherical |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 4.5 (high) 6.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.5 (high) 6.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | pulvinic acid |
primary photobiont: | absent | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |