LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1264
Vulpicida juniperinus (L.) Mattsson & M. J. Lai
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | yellow(ish) grey | green(ish) yellow |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 5.0 |
| [th] lower surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) yellow | brown(ish) white |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 6.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | green(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | yellow(ish) grey |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 10.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 6.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | fusiform | sublageniform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 3.5 (low) 6.0 (high) 8.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | pinastric acid | usnic acid | vulpinic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |