LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13191
Bapalmuia nigrescens (Müll. Arg.) M. Cáceres & Lücking
| 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) | green(ish) grey |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.6 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | grey(ish) black | grey(ish) brown |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | grey(ish) | white(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | black(ish) 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: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | filiform, vermiform | cylindrical |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 25.0 (high) 40.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 2.5 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 7.0 (high) 9.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | ellipsoidal |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.5 (high) 5.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |