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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12613
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | green(ish) grey |
[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]: | (low) 0.6 (high) 1.1 |
ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | grey(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 2.5 |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | grey(ish) brown |
asci: | unitunicate |
[asc] tholus: | not thickened | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
ascospores: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 118.0 (high) 150.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 21.0 (high) 28.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
[asp] transversal septa: | (low) 27.0 (high) 35.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |