LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1297
Chaenotheca brunneola (Ach.) Müll. Arg.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) grey | grey(ish) green |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – mazaedial |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| [asp] shape: | globose, spherical |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 2.2 (low) 3.5 (high) 4.5 (max) 5.4 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 2.2 (low) 3.5 (high) 4.5 (max) 5.4 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | pale brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | baeomycesic acid | squamatic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |