LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13016
Echinoplaca diffluens (Müll. Arg.) R. Sant.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) |
| 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) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted | uneven, undulate |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.4 (high) 1.2 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) brown | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 2.0 (high) 6.0 |
| [asp] shape: | cylindrical | oblong, oblong-obtuse |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 40.0 (high) 70.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 9.0 (high) 14.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 7.0 (high) 11.0 (max) 15.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |