LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13270
Sporopodium phyllocharis (Mont.) A. Massal.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | leaves, fronds, needles – living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | leprose, leprarioid, powdery, byssoid |
| thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate |
| [th] upper surface: | blue(ish) grey | green(ish) blue |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular | verrucose, warted |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 0.7 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) brown | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose |
| [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: | yellow(ish) brown |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | green(ish) yellow |
| 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) 1.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 60.0 (high) 90.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 15.0 (high) 20.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | pyriform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 5.0 (low) 6.0 (high) 7.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2,5,7-trichloro-3-O-methylnorlichexanthone | 5,7-dichloro-3-O-methylnorlichexanthone | pannarin | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |