LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1321
Chaenothecopsis hospitans (Th. Fr.) Tibell
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi |
| life habit: | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.16 (high) 0.24 (max) 0.3 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | grey(ish) green |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | hyaline, colourless |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| [asp] shape: | broadly ellipsoidal | elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 6.0 (low) 8.0 (high) 10.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 2.5 (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| host organism: | |
| primary photobiont: | absent |