LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13155
Fellhanera elliottii (Vain.) Vězda
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | leaves, fronds, needles – living |
| life habit: | algicolous (parasitic on eukaryotic algae) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) grey |
| [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 – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 0.5 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | hyaline, colourless |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (min) 6.0(median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 26.0 (high) 34.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 9.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (min) 5.0 (low) 7.0 (high) 9.0 (max) 11.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | pyriform | clavate |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent | present |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |