LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1303
Chaenotheca ferruginea (Turner & Borrer) Mig
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | 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: | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | white(ish) | green(ish) grey | white(ish) grey | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | yellow(ish) red (orange red) | grey(ish) white |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – mazaedial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.5 (max) 0.8 |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [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) 4.3 (low) 5.5 (high) 8.0 (max) 9.2 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 4.3 (low) 5.5 (high) 8.0 (max) 9.2 |
| [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: | unknown/unidentified pigment(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |