LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 12997
Aderkomyces albostrigosus f. aggregatus Lücking & Vězda
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | leaves, fronds, needles – living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.4 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | hyaline, colourless |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 40.0 (high) 70.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 17.0 (high) 28.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | fusiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 10.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |