LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12874
Porina subinterstes (Nyl.) Müll. Arg.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | leaves, fronds, needles – living | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) grey | yellow(ish) grey | grey(ish) green | grey(ish) brown | yellow(ish) brown |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | verruculose, minutely warted | rugulose, finely wrinkled |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.29 (low) 0.35 (high) 0.55 (max) 1.0 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | grey(ish) brown |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform | cylindrical | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 17.0 (low) 27.0 (high) 31.0 (max) 35.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.5 (high) 5.5 (max) 9.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 7.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | thin, thinly halonate | thick, distincly halonate |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | fusiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 4.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |