
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12484
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
[th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted | uneven, undulate |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (median) 0.2 |
ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
[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) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
asci: | unitunicate |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
ascospores: | (min) 1.0 (low) 2.0 (high) 4.0 (max) 5.0 |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 35.0 (high) 46.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 17.0 (high) 24.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
[asp] transversal septa: | (low) 9.0 (high) 12.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | amyloid |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | connorstictic acid | norstictic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |