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LIASlight ItemID: 1299

Chaenotheca chrysocephala (Ach.) Th. Fr.

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 | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic
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: continuous, diffuse, effuse | granular, granulose, granulate | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate
[th] upper surface: yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) yellow
[th upper surface]: epruinose
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: granulose, granular | verrucose, warted
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – mazaedial
ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.2 (high) 0.3
ascoma: pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose
asci: prototunicate
[asc] tholus: not thickened
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): absent
[asp] shape: globose, spherical | subglobose, subspherical | broadly ellipsoidal
[asp] length [µm]: (min) 5.4 (low) 6.0 (high) 9.0 (max) 12.5
[asp] width [µm]: (min) 3.3 (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 (max) 6.0
[asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular
[asp] pigmentation: pale brown | medium brown, brownish
[asp] perispore, epispore: ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked
secondary metabolites: present
secondary metabolites: vulpinic acid
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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